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Ezekiel 23:43

Ezekiel 23:43
Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries,.... That had been an old adulterer or idolater; meaning either Aholah the ten tribes, who from Jeroboam's time had been guilty of idolatry; or Aholibah…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Will they now commit ... - Rather, Now shall there be committed her whoredom, even this; i. e., when Israel and Judah had courted these alliances God said in wrath, “This sin too shall be committed,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezekiel 23:22-49

Jerusalem stands indicted by the name of Aholibah, for that she, as a false traitor to her sovereign Lord the God of heaven, not having his fear before her eyes, but moved by the instigation of the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

unto her … old in adulteries Oldis worn out, e.g. of clothes, Jos 9:4-5, and the verb of the body, in the decay of nature (Gen 18:12, of Sarah). The construction of A.V. is unusual; the words might be…

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