Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 23:37
That they have committed adultery, and blood [is] in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore unto me, to pass for them through [the fire], to devour [them].
37. that they have committed ] for they have. The blood on their hands is that of their children whom they sacrifice. See Eze 16:20-21.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Blood – One of the chief sins of Manasseh was that he shed innocent blood 2Ki 21:16; 2Ki 24:4.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
They have committed adultery: this seems to refer to corporal uncleannesses.
Blood is in their hands; innocent blood of the murdered prophets and just men.
Committed adultery; spiritual adultery, i.e. idolatry.
Caused their sons to pass through the fire; most unheard of cruelty, and unnatural murders, under pretext of religion! thus Eze 16:20.
To devour them; they destroyed, took away the life of their sons in a barbarous manner.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
That they have committed adultery,…. Either literally, adultery with their neighbours’ wives, which was a prevailing sin with this people; or figuratively, spiritual adultery, that is, idolatry:
and blood is in their hands; the Targum is,
“they have shed the blood of innocents with their hands;”
the blood of prophets and righteous men, sent unto them; and the blood of their infants in sacrificing to idols, as after mentioned:
and with their idols have they committed adultery; by worshipping them, which is spiritual adultery; and this being so explicitly mentioned, it seems to be distinguished from corporeal adultery in the first clause, which may be only there designed; and so Kimchi thinks:
and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them; their children, who were the Lord’s by national adoption, and who ought to have been trained up in the worship and service of God, were, in a most barbarous and unnatural manner, caused to pass through the fire, for or to the idols Molech and Baal; and that not merely by way of lustration and dedication, which was sometimes done by passing between two fires, but so as to be devoured and destroyed by the fire.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
37. To pass for them through the fire On Molech worship see note Eze 16:20-21. The Baal worship was only a little less horrible. (See Vigouroux, “Les Pretres de Baal,” Revue Biblique, 1896.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Eze 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood [is] in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through [the fire], to devour [them].
Ver. 37. And blood is in their hands. ] Adultery is the devil’s nest egg, and causeth many sins to be laid one to and upon another; as here, murder, idolatry, &c.
To devour them.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
adultery. Put (like whoredom) for all idolatry, as being unfaithfulness to Jehovah. See note on Eze 16:15.
caused = set apart.
to pass, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 18:21; Lev 20:2-4),
them. “Them” is masculine, and refers to the idols, in the first clause; and so, many codices, with six earlypriated editions (one Rabbinic). But some codices read feminine = themselves.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
they have: Eze 23:5, Eze 16:32, Hos 1:2, Hos 3:1
and blood: Eze 23:39, Eze 23:45, Eze 16:36, Eze 16:38, Eze 22:2-4, Eze 24:6-9, 2Ki 24:4, Psa 106:37, Psa 106:38, Isa 1:15, Jer 7:6, Jer 7:9, Hos 4:2, Mic 3:10, Luk 13:34
have also: Eze 23:4, Eze 16:20, Eze 16:21, Eze 16:36, Eze 16:45, Eze 20:26, Eze 20:31, Lev 18:21, Lev 20:2-5, Deu 12:31, 2Ki 17:17, 2Ki 21:6, Jer 7:31, Jer 32:35
Reciprocal: 2Ki 23:10 – might make 2Ch 33:6 – caused Jer 7:10 – come Eze 20:39 – but Eze 36:18 – for the Mic 6:7 – shall
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 23:37. This verse combines the figurative with the literal terms for the same abomination. It explains the adultery of these women (Aholah and Ahohbah; Samaria and Jerusalem) to be the practice of idolatry. They carried the service to the extent of offering their own children in sacrifice to the idols.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood [is] in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass for them through [the fire], to {o} devour [them].
(o) That is, to be sacrifices to their idols, read Eze 16:20 .