Teks -- Ezekiel 23:5 (NET)

23:5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians– warriors

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 23:5 - Played the harlot

United in idolatry, with the Assyrians.

Wesley: Eze 23:5 - Mine

When under my government, and protection.

JFB: Eze 23:5 - when . . . mine

Literally, "under Me," that is, subject to Me as her lawful husband.

JFB: Eze 23:5 - neighbours

On the northeast the kingdom of Israel bordered on that of Assyria; for the latter had occupied much of Syria. Their neighborhood in locality was emblematical of their being near in corruption of morals and worship. The alliances of Israel with Assyria, which are the chief subject of reprobation here, tended to this (2Ki 15:19; 2Ki 16:7, 2Ki 16:9; 2Ki 17:3; Hos 8:9).

Clarke: Eze 23:5 - And Aholah played the harlot

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 which connection the prophet speaks here as he did in chap. 16, which see

In this chapter there are many of what we would call indelicate expressions, because a parallel is run between idolatry and prostitution, and the circumstances of the latter illustrate the peculiarities of the former. In such cases, perhaps, the matter alone was given to the prophet, and he was left to use his own language, and amplify as he saw good. Ezekiel was among the Jews what Juvenal was among the Romans, - a rough reprover of the most abominable vices. They both spoke of things as they found them; stripped vice naked, and scourged it publicly. The original is still more rough than the translation; and surely there is no need of a comment to explain imagery that is but too generally understood. I have said enough on Ezekiel 16, and to that I must refer the reader. It is true that there are a few things here in the shade that might be illustrated by anatomy; and it would not be difficult to do it: but they are not necessary to salvation, and I shall not take off the covering. They were sufficiently understood by those for whose use they were originally designed.

TSK: Eze 23:5 - Aholah // doted // on the

Aholah : The Israelites, in addition to their former gross idolatries, received the impure idolatrous worship of the Assyrians, who became their neighbours by the conquest of Syria. 1Ki 14:9, 1Ki 14:16, 1Ki 15:26, 1Ki 15:30, 1Ki 16:31, 1Ki 16:32, 1Ki 21:26; 2Ki 17:7-18

doted : Eze 23:7, Eze 23:9, Eze 23:12, Eze 23:16, Eze 23:20, Eze 16:37; Jer 50:38

on the : Eze 16:28; 2Ki 15:19, 2Ki 16:7, 2Ki 17:3; Hos 5:13, Hos 8:9, Hos 8:10, Hos 10:6, Hos 12:1

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 23:5 - Aholah // played the harlot // When she was mine // Doted // Her lovers // The Assyrians // Her neighbours

Aholah the kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes,

played the harlot united in confederacy in civil concerns, and in idolatry as to religious concerns, with the Assyrians.

When she was mine when under my government and protection, or in my presence, or before I had abdicated and cast her off.

Doted were madly enamoured with the Assyrian idols, temples, and manner of worship.

Her lovers whom she loved, not that I find they so much loved her.

The Assyrians so often mentioned, nothing needs be said of them.

Her neighbours so they were now by their seizing of Syria, and possessing it as their own 2Ki 15:19 .

Haydock: Eze 23:5 - Assyrians

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. (Challoner) (Worthington) ---

The Assyrians taught the worship of Baal, the high places, &c. The Egyptians also promoted their abominations. (Calmet)

Gill: Eze 23:5 - And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine // and she doted on her lovers

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 interest to serve him only: or, "instead of me" ^p; or, as the Syriac version, "besides me": they worshipped other gods in the room of the true God, or other gods besides him. The Targum is,

"and Aholah erred from my worship;''

the ten tribes fell into idolatry, when they were God's professing people:

and she doted on her lovers; whom she loved even to madness; she was mad with love, to the idols, temples, altars, and idolatrous worship of the Heathens; particularly doted "on the Assyrians her neighbours"; who were become so by the conquest of Syria; and these they treated as their neighbours, and sought to have them to be their allies and confederates; courted their help and assistance, and gave them much money for that purpose; as Menahem gave to Pul king of Assyria a thousand talents of silver, to confirm the kingdom in his hand, 2Ki 15:19.