Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 23:13
Then I saw that she was defiled, [that] they [took] both one way,
Eze 23:13
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way.
Infection easy
Manton says: We easily catch an infectious disease from one another, but no man receiveth health from anothers company. Too true. Evil communications inevitably corrupt good manners; but good communications do not so necessarily improve evil manners. We more readily learn evil than good, and we are also more forcible in communicating sin than virtue. Both as to the giving out and the receiving, the aptness lies on the wrong side. What a proof of our natural depravity! What a change must grace work in us before we shall be fully like our Lord Jesus, who was incapable of being inoculated by sin, but abundantly able to communicate goodness; for healing virtue proceeded from Him. When shall we become disseminators of holiness by our very presence? (C. H. Spurgeon.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Then; when she took not warning, neither feared.
She was defiled; her heart was already on her idols. Both Samaria and Jerusalem took one way; chose the same idols and idolatry.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
13. one wayboth alikeforsaking God for heathen confidences.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Then I saw that she was defiled,…. With idols, and the worship of them, Eze 23:7:
that they took both one way; the same way of idolatry; worshipped the same idols, lived the same course of life, were guilty of the same sin, both Israel and Judah.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, [that] they [took] both one way,
Ver. 13. Then I saw that she was defiled. ] Whence it is that man’s nature is so prone to idolatry, and why that sin is compared to adultery, see Polanus upon this chapter, pp. 538-540.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
that they: Eze 23:31, 2Ki 17:18, 2Ki 17:19, Hos 12:1, Hos 12:2
Reciprocal: Eze 23:40 – ye have 2Pe 2:21 – to turn
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 23:13. Took both one way means Aholibah followed in the same way that was practiced by her sister Aholah,
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Eze 23:13-16. Then When she neither took warning nor feared; I saw that she was defiled That her heart was already set on her idols; that they both Samaria and Jerusalem; took one way That Judah fell into the same idolatrous practices as Israel. And that she increased her whoredoms Added to the number of her idolatries; for when she saw men portrayed, &c. These were probably the pictures of those deified heroes, whom the Chaldeans worshipped as gods; such were Bel, Nebo, and Merodach, mentioned Isa 46:1; Jer 50:2. Calmet, however, understands the words in a different sense, paraphrasing them thus: Before she had seen the Assyrians, upon the bare relation concerning them, or upon the painting only which was made of them, her passion was inflamed toward them. Girded with girdles upon their loins A girdle was a mark of dignity, and worn as such by princes and men in authority. In died attire upon their heads Houbigant reads, Having their heads bound with a died tiara, or turban. The Chaldeans, and afterward the Persians, wore a sort of turban upon their heads, died of different colours, and with different degrees of ornaments, according to their different qualities. As soon as she saw them, she doted upon them These images pleased her so much, that she sent to Babylon to learn the manner how their idols were to be worshipped: see Eze 23:40-41; Eze 16:17. This, Lowth thinks, relates to those times when a correspondence was maintained between the cities of Babylon and Jerusalem, after that Nebuchadnezzar had conquered Judea, and made it a tributary kingdom, in the beginning of the fourth year of Jehoiakim.