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Ezekiel
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The LORD’s word came again to me, saying, “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. See also: Jeremiah 3:7-10Ezekiel 16:44-46They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there. See also: Leviticus 17:7Joshua 24:14Ezekiel 16:22Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah. See also: Ezekiel 16:8Psalms 76:2Jeremiah 2:2-3“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors, See also: 2 Kings 15:192 Kings 16:72 Kings 17:3who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. See also: Ezekiel 23:23She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whomever she lusted after. See also: Hosea 6:10Hosea 5:3Ezekiel 20:7She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples and they poured out their prostitution on her. See also: Ezekiel 23:3Ezekiel 23:19Exodus 32:4“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted. See also: Hosea 11:52 Kings 15:292 Kings 17:23These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her. See also: Ezekiel 23:29Hosea 2:10Ezekiel 23:48“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister. See also: Jeremiah 3:8-11Ezekiel 23:4Ezekiel 16:47-51She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. See also: 2 Kings 16:7-15Ezekiel 16:28Ezekiel 23:23I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way. See also: 2 Kings 17:18-19Ezekiel 23:31Hosea 12:1-2“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red, See also: Ezekiel 8:10Jeremiah 22:14Ezekiel 16:29dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. See also: Isaiah 22:211 Samuel 18:42 Samuel 14:25As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. See also: Ezekiel 16:29Matthew 5:28Genesis 6:2The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. See also: Ezekiel 23:22Ezekiel 23:282 Samuel 13:15So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister. See also: Jeremiah 12:8Psalms 106:40Psalms 78:59Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt. See also: Ezekiel 23:3Ezekiel 16:29Ezekiel 16:22She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. See also: Ezekiel 16:26Ezekiel 17:15Jeremiah 5:8Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts. “Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side: See also: Ezekiel 16:37Revelation 17:16Jeremiah 6:22-23the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. See also: Jeremiah 50:212 Kings 20:14-172 Kings 24:2They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their judgments. See also: 2 Samuel 24:14Jeremiah 47:3Ezekiel 26:10I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire. See also: Ezekiel 23:47Ezekiel 16:38-42Hosea 2:4-5They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. See also: Ezekiel 16:39Jeremiah 13:22Ezekiel 23:29Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’ See also: Ezekiel 16:41Ezekiel 23:3Ezekiel 23:19“For the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated. See also: Ezekiel 16:37Ezekiel 23:17Ezekiel 23:22They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution. See also: Ezekiel 23:45-47Ezekiel 23:25-26Ezekiel 16:39These things will be done to you because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols. See also: Ezekiel 6:9Psalms 106:35-38Jeremiah 2:18-20You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’ See also: 2 Kings 21:13Jeremiah 7:14-15Daniel 9:12“The Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much. See also: Psalms 60:3Isaiah 51:17Ezekiel 22:4-5You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. See also: Jeremiah 25:27Isaiah 51:17Jeremiah 25:15-16You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. See also: Psalms 75:8Isaiah 51:17Ezekiel 23:3“Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’” See also: 1 Kings 14:9Ezekiel 22:12Jeremiah 32:33The LORD said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. See also: Ezekiel 22:2Isaiah 58:1Ezekiel 16:2For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured. See also: Ezekiel 16:36Jeremiah 7:31Ezekiel 16:20-21Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths. See also: Ezekiel 20:132 Kings 21:7Ezekiel 20:24For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house. See also: 2 Kings 21:4Ezekiel 44:7Jeremiah 23:11“Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments, See also: Jeremiah 4:302 Kings 9:30Ezekiel 16:13-16and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil. See also: Esther 1:6Amos 6:4Ezekiel 44:16“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads. See also: Ezekiel 16:11-12Revelation 12:3Exodus 32:18-19Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’ See also: Daniel 9:16Jeremiah 13:23Psalms 106:6They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. See also: Ezekiel 23:3Ezekiel 23:9-13Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. See also: Leviticus 20:10Ezekiel 23:36-39Hosea 6:5“For the Lord GOD says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed. See also: Ezekiel 16:40Jeremiah 24:9Jeremiah 15:4The company will stone them with stones and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. See also: Jeremiah 39:8Ezekiel 24:21Ezekiel 16:40-41“‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you. See also: Ezekiel 23:27Ezekiel 16:412 Peter 2:6They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’” See also: Ezekiel 9:10Ezekiel 7:4Ezekiel 7:9
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)25 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Ezekiel 23:3
Ver. 3. Fornication. That is, idolatry. Ch. --- Down. Virgins used the stomacher, or (H.) fascia pectoralis. Is. iii. 24. This chapter resembles the 16th. C.
↑ 3Ezekiel 23:4
Ver. 4. Oolla and Ooliba. God calls the kingdom of Israel Oolla, which signifies their own habitation, because they separated themselves from his temple; and the kingdom of Juda Ooliba, which signifies his habitation in her, because of his temple among them in Jerusalem. Ch. --- The ten tribes first gave way to idolatry, and were more numerous. C. -- In Egypt the people were united, yet abandoned to idolatry in their youth, when they were only beginning to increase.
Afterwards the ten tribes set up altars for themselves, at Dan and Bethel. W.
↑ 4Ezekiel 23:5
Ver. 5. Assyrians. That is, the idols of the Assyrians: for all that is said in this chapter of the fornications of Israel and Juda, is to be understood in a spiritual sense of their disloyalty to the Lord, by worshipping strange gods. Ch. W. ---
The Assyrians taught the worship of Baal, the high places, &c. The Egyptians also promoted their abominations. C.
↑ 5Ezekiel 23:6
Ver. 6. Blue, or purple. This was reserved for the principal nobility.
↑ 6Ezekiel 23:8
Ver. 8. Egypt. They always retained an affection for those idols, the calf, Adonis, &c.
↑ 8Ezekiel 23:10
Ver. 10. Disgrace: satisfying their passions. v. 29. C. --- Women. Having once lost all sense of decorum, they became more abandoned. H.
↑ 10Ezekiel 23:11
Ver. 11. This; not chastisement, but dissolution.
↑ 11Ezekiel 23:14
Ver. 14. Colours. She was enamoured at the account or picture of these people, without ever having seen them.
↑ 14Ezekiel 23:16
Ver. 16. Messengers. Achaz invited the Assyrians, and imitated their altars, &c.
4 K. xvi. 2. &c.
C. --- The Chaldeans afterwards possessed the country. H.
↑ 16Ezekiel 23:17
Ver. 17. Love. Lit. "of breasts," as Heb. also signifies. Here it denotes the temples. M.
↑ 17Ezekiel 23:19
Ver. 19. Remembering, or "causing to be remembered" by God, who seemed to have forgotten those ancient scenes of wickedness. C. xxi. 24.
↑ 19Ezekiel 23:20
Ver. 20. Asses. He means the Egyptians, (C. xvi. 26.) in whom the kings of Juda trusted. C.
↑ 20Ezekiel 23:22
Ver. 22. About. The Philistines, Ammonites, &c. shall join the Chaldees, (H.) and Egypt shall desert the Jews in their greatest need. C.
↑ 22Ezekiel 23:23
Ver. 23. Nobles. Prot. "Pekod, and Shoah, and Roa:" (H.) which Junius takes to be the three great divisions of the empire. Others suppose they denote the dignities, though they occur not in Daniel. --- Captains. Heb. "Phachat, and Saganim, (v. 6, 12.) and Schalischim:" officers mentioned Ex. xiv. 7. and 2 K.
xxiii. 8. --- Renowned, called to the assemblies and councils of the princes.
Num. i. 16. C. --- Horsemen. Prot. "all of them riding upon horses." H.
↑ 23Ezekiel 23:24
Ver. 24. Judgments, at Reblatha. 4 K. xxv. 6.
↑ 24Ezekiel 23:25
Ver. 25. Jealousy, the most violent of passions. C. --- So the Chaldees are styled, as Assur is the rod. Is. x. 5. W. --- Ears, the punishment of adulteresses: both king and priests suffer. S. Jer. ---
Thus the captives were probably treated. C. See Sen. Ira. iii. 20. --- Fire, by Ismahel. C. xix.
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↑ 25Ezekiel 23:26
Ver. 26. Glory; vanity, or of the temple. C. xvi. 17. Osee ii. 4.
↑ 26Ezekiel 23:31
Ver. 31. Cup. Thou shalt be punished like Samaria, dreadfully. 4 K. xvii. 4. C.
↑ 31Ezekiel 23:34
Ver. 34. Fragments, as drunkards sometimes bite (H.) the cup in their rage. ---
Rend. What had been the occasion of thy fall: (C.) pectori planxi. Ovid ep. 5.
↑ 34Ezekiel 23:36
Ver. 36. Deeds. He is thus admonished to condemn them; (C. xx. 4.) as times and places tended to aggravate their crimes, v. 39. W.
↑ 36Ezekiel 23:40
Ver. 40. Paint, with antimony. Sept. See 4 K. ix. 3.
↑ 40Ezekiel 23:41
Ver. 41. Bed: it seems at table. Amos ii. 8. Tob. ii. 3. --- Ointment; using them for thyself, or presenting them to idols. Ex. xxx. 23. and 33. C.
↑ 41Ezekiel 23:42
Ver. 42. And that. Prot. "Sabeans (marg. and Sept. drunkards) from," &c. Any were admitted (H.) to the priesthood and to her favours, even the most rustic and deformed. 3 K. xii. 32.
↑ 42Ezekiel 23:45
Ver. 45. Just, compared with the Jews, whom they shall chastise. C.
↑ 45Ezekiel 23:47
Ver. 47. Stones, like adulteresses. C. xvi. 38. Lev. xx. 10. H. --- Let the walls be demolished.
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↑ 47License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses