Ezequiel 23:5

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

E prostituiu-se Ool, sendo minha; e enamorou-se dos seus amantes, dos assrios, seus vizinhos,

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
E prostituiu-se Aol, sendo minha; e enamorou-se dos seus amantes, dos assrios, seus vizinhos,

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Prostituiu-se Ool, quando era minha; inflamou-se pelos seus amantes, pelos assrios, seus vizinhos,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Aholah: The Israelites, in addition to their former gross idolatries, received the impure idolatrous worship of the Assyrians, who became their neighbours by the conquest of Syria. 1 Kings 14:9, 1 Kings 14:16, 1 Kings 15:26, 1 Kings 15:30, 1 Kings 16:31, 1 Kings 16:32, 1 Kings 21:26, 2 Kings 17:7-18

doted: Ezekiel 23:7, Ezekiel 23:9, Ezekiel 23:12, Ezekiel 23:16, Ezekiel 23:20, Ezekiel 16:37, Jeremiah 50:38

on the: Ezekiel 16:28, 2 Kings 15:19, 2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 17:3, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 8:9, Hosea 8:10, Hosea 10:6, Hosea 12:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:24 - played the harlot Genesis 39:7 - cast Deuteronomy 31:16 - and go a Judges 18:24 - what have Jeremiah 2:20 - playing Ezekiel 21:24 - your transgressions Ezekiel 23:37 - they have Hosea 2:5 - their mother Hosea 5:3 - thou Hosea 6:10 - there Amos 2:6 - For three

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine,.... His married wife, and so ought to have cleaved to him alone: or, under me o; under his cover, power, and protection, and therefore it was their interest to serve him only: or, "instead of me" p; or, as the Syriac version, "besides me": they worshipped other gods in the room of the true God, or other gods besides him. The Targum is,

"and Aholah erred from my worship;''

the ten tribes fell into idolatry, when they were God's professing people:

and she doted on her lovers; whom she loved even to madness; she was mad with love, to the idols, temples, altars, and idolatrous worship of the Heathens; particularly doted "on the Assyrians her neighbours"; who were become so by the conquest of Syria; and these they treated as their neighbours, and sought to have them to be their allies and confederates; courted their help and assistance, and gave them much money for that purpose; as Menahem gave to Pul king of Assyria a thousand talents of silver, to confirm the kingdom in his hand,

2 Kings 15:19.

o תחתי "sub me", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Tigurine version. Piscator, Cocceius, Starckius. p "Exteros excipiens loco meo", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 23:5. And Aholah played the harlot — Without entering into detail here, or following the figures, they both became idolatrous, and received the impure rites of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans, of which connexion the prophet speaks here as he did in Ezekiel 16:15 c., which see.

In this chapter there are many of what we would call indelicate expressions, because a parallel is run between idolatry and prostitution, and the circumstances of the latter illustrate the peculiarities of the former. In such cases, perhaps, the matter alone was given to the prophet, and he was left to use his own language, and amplify as he saw good. Ezekiel was among the Jews what Juvenal was among the Romans,-a rough reprover of the most abominable vices. They both spoke of things as they found them stripped vice naked, and scourged it publicly. The original is still more rough than the translation; and surely there is no need of a comment to explain imagery that is but too generally understood. I have said enough on Ezekiel 16:15 c,, and to that I must refer the reader. It is true that there are a few things here in the shade that might be illustrated by anatomy and it would not be difficult to do it: but they are not necessary to salvation, and I shall not take off the covering. They were sufficiently understood by those for whose use they were originally designed.