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Ezekiel 23:5

Ezekiel 23:5
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezekiel 23:1-10

God had often spoken to Ezekiel, and by him to the people, to this effect, but now his word comes again; for God speaks the same thing once, yea, twice, yea, many a time, and all little enough, and…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The intrigues of Samaria with Assyria

5. when she was mine though my wife, lit. under me.

Assyriansher neighbours In Eze 16:26 the Egyptians are called Israel's "neighbours," but the Assyrians could…