Hesekiel 23:20

Lutherbibel

und entbrannte gegen ihre Buhlen, welcher Brunst war wie der Esel und der Hengste Brunst.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und sie entbrannte gegen ihre Buhlen, die wahres Eselsfleisch hatten und Ruten wie Hengste.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 16:20, Ezekiel 16:26, Ezekiel 17:15, Jeremiah 5:8

Reciprocal: Leviticus 15:3 - General Ezekiel 23:5 - doted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For she doted upon their paramours,.... Or "concubines" z; the neighbouring nations and allies of the Egyptians, whose friendship the Jews courted, and whose idols they served: the Septuagint and Arabic versions wrongly read the Chaldeans:

whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses; by "flesh" is meant the "membrum virile", which in asses is very large, and therefore dedicated to Priapus by the Heathens; and vast is the profusion of seed in coitus by horses, to which the flesh and issue of the Egyptian paramours are compared; who were very libidinous, and therefore desirable to insatiable women; all which serves to express the eagerness of the people of the Jews after idolatry.

z פלגשיהם "equecubinas eorum", Vatablus, so Junius Tremellius, Polanus "concubitores", Munster, Tigurine version; "cinaedos", Castalio; and, as Ben Melech observes, these were men, and not women.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 23:20. She doted upon their paramours — פלגשיהם pillagsheyhem, their harlots or concubines. Anciently harlot meant in our language either the male or female prostitute.

Whose flesh is as the flesh of asses — See on Ezekiel 16:25.