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La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Ezechiele 23:20

e si è innamorata degli Egizi, più che le lor concubine stesse; perciocchè la lor carne è carne d’asini, e il lor flusso è flusso di cavalli.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ass;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Issue;   Oholibah;   Paramour;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Oholah and Oholibah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Aholah ;   Aholibah ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Nebuchadnez'zar,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ass;   Flesh;   Issue;   Paramour;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gentile;   Horse;  

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Si infiamm per i suoi amanti, la cui carne come la carne degli asini e la cui emissione come quella dei cavalli.
Riveduta Bibbia
e s’appassionò per quei fornicatori dalle membra d’asino, dall’ardor di stalloni.

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.


 
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