Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 23:31
Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
31. her cup ] That which she drank, Isa 51:22-23; Jer 25:15-16.
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Thou, O Jerusalem and Judah,
hast walked; hast run into the same sinful enormities.
Thy sister; Samaria and the ten tribes, both great idolatresses.
Her cup of judgments and sorrow, expressed frequently by a cup, Psa 75:8; Jer 25:15; I will punish thee with punishments like hers, since thou hast made thyself in sins like her.
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31. her cupof punishment(Psa 11:6; Psa 75:8;Jer 25:15, &c.). Thy guiltand that of Israel being alike, your punishment shall be alike.
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Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister,…. Samaria, or the ten tribes of Israel; followed them in their idolatrous practices, were guilty of the same:
therefore will I give her cup into thine hand; the cup of her vengeance, as the Targum; inflict the same punishment on the two tribes as on the ten, and suffer them to be carried captive as they had been.
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31, 32. Her cup See Jer 25:15; Mat 20:22; Mat 26:39. Every inhabitant of Jerusalem would admit that Samaria’s cup of sin and folly and punishment was deep and large (Eze 23:32).
It containeth much Or, thou shalt be had in derision to the uttermost.
“You have walked in the way of your sister, therefore I will give her cup into your hand.”
All could remember the stories of that terrible day when Samaria had been ravaged and her people taken away by the Assyrians into captivity. It was a lesson deeply imprinted on their minds. But it was an unlearned lesson, for their behaviour had paralleled that of Samaria. And now it was to happen to them in the same way. They must drink of the same cup, put into their hands by the hand of Yahweh.
The picture of hard human experience as the drinking of a cup is a fairly common one. See Psa 11:6; Psa 60:3; Psa 75:8; Isa 51:17; Isa 51:22; Jer 25:15-29; Jer 49:12-13; Jer 51:7; Lam 4:21; Hab 2:16; Zec 12:2. Compare also the cup of scorn in the Ugaritic literature. Men were used to seeing the effects of heavy drinking of wine, the reeling, the light-headedness, the vomiting, the uncontrolled behaviour, the collapse. To ‘drink’ was to experience fully, to receive to the full until they were sated.
Eze 23:31. Therefore will I give her cup, &c. “Thou shalt suffer the same punishment as Samaria.” See Eze 23:33. The cup is often used as a metaphor to express chastisement. Comp. Isa 51:17; Isa 51:23.
Eze 23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
Ver. 31. Therefore will I give her cup into thine hand. ] An allusion to the manner of feasts, whereat the symposiarch or governor gave every guest his cup fitly tempered. God is the great Modimperator.
cup. Compare Isa 51:17. Rev 14:9, Rev 14:10.
walked: Eze 23:13, Eze 16:47-51, Jer 3:8-11
her: 2Ki 21:13, Jer 7:14, Jer 7:15, Dan 9:12
Reciprocal: Psa 60:3 – to drink Isa 51:17 – which hast Jer 48:26 – ye him Eze 7:4 – but Eze 16:46 – elder Eze 43:10 – that they Hos 1:4 – will cause Hos 5:5 – Judah Hos 12:2 – and will Joh 18:11 – the cup
Eze 23:31. Give her cup means that Judah was to receive the same cup or punishment as Israel and that was to be captivity. This was just, since she had taken up the same walk of life as that followed by her sister Israel.
Eze 23:31-35. Therefore will I give her cup, &c. I will make thee drink the same bitter draught, or experience the same calamity that has fallen upon her. Gods judgments are often compared to a cup of intoxicating liquors, because they astonish men, and bereave them of common judgment and discretion, and likewise expose them to the scorn and contempt of their enemies. Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out There shall be no punishment which thou shalt not partake of. Thou shalt drink of the cup of calamity even to the dregs; that which is the very worst and most bitter: see notes on Psa 75:8. and Isa 51:17. Thou shalt break the sherds thereof People who are quite intoxicated, often in their drunken madness break the cups out of which they had drunk; therefore by this expression here is meant, that the Jewish people should be, as it were, driven to madness by the grievous judgments that should fall upon them. And pluck off thine own breasts Thou shalt tear away thy breasts with the sharp pieces of the broken cup, through grief and madness. Bishop Newcome. Or, Thou shalt be in a fury with thyself for having by thine own sins brought such grievous calamities upon thyself. Her breasts are mentioned as the parts which had a principal share in her guilt, according to the allegorical description here given of her idolatries. Because thou hast forgotten me Because thou hast not only forsaken my worship, but hast showed the utmost contempt of and aversion from me. Therefore bear thou also thy lewdness Therefore thou shalt suffer the punishment of thy wickedness and idolatry.
23:31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her {m} cup into thy hand.
(m) I will execute the same judgments and vengeance against you and that with greater severity.
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