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Ezékiel 23:43
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
old: Ezra 9:7, Psalms 106:6, Jeremiah 13:23, Daniel 9:16
whoredoms with her: Heb. her whoredoms
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 32:30 - children Hosea 2:2 - let
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 the two tribes, who had remained longer in their own country, and had been long given to idolatry; or both of them, as some think, the whole body of the people of Israel, who had been addicted to idolatry ever since they came out of Egypt, and so was like an old harlot indeed: now the Lord said "unto her", or "concerning her" l; in his own mind, after the manner of men. So the Targum,
"I said concerning the congregation of Israel, whose people are old in sins:''
will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? will they commit adultery with such an old harlot? are they not weary of her? and will they not rather loath and despise her? as it is common when such prostitutes grow old; and what pleasure can she take, thus advanced in years, in such impurities? suggesting that alliances and confederacies between the Jews and the nations of the world could not be agreeable on either side, especially to the former; but so it was, and so were their idolatries likewise. The Targum is,
"now she will leave her idols, and return to thy worship; but she returned not.''
l ×××× "de inveterata illa", Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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, âThis sin too shall be committed, and so (not âyet) they went in;â the alliances were made according to their desires, and then followed the consequent punishment.
