Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 23:49
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.
Verse 49. Ye shall bear the sins of your idols] The punishment due to your adultery; your apostasy from God, and setting up idolatry in the land.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
They; the Babylonians, and their confederates.
Shall recompense; as Gods ministers of just vengeance, shall judge you worthy, and execute on you what you are worthy of, all that may make you desolate, a derision, and scorn.
Shall bear the sins of your idols; the guilt of the sins you committed in worshipping of and relying upon idols; and you shall bar the punishment of idolaters, which by the law of God is death without mercy, Deu 13:6-10.
Ye shall know that I am the Lord God; by what you suffer you shall know that I am justly displeased with your sins, am true to my threats, and have made good my word: Deu 8:19,
If thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, & c.,
ye shall surely perish.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
49. bear the sins of your idolsthatis, the punishment of your idolatry.
know that I am the LordGodthat is, know it to your cost . . . by bitter suffering.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you,…. Or, “give your lewdness” q; the punishment of it; the just recompence of reward for their idolatry:
and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; the shame, and guilt, and punishment of their sins committed in worshipping idols:
and ye shall know that I am the Lord God; the only Lord God who is to be worshipped, and not idols; jealous of my honour and glory, and true to my word; who can and will accomplish all I have said; this the Jews knew and acknowledged when in captivity, and returned from it, as they will more fully when they shall be converted in the latter day.
q “et dabunt scelus vestrum”, V. L. Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(49) Bear the sins of your idolsi.e., the punishment of the sins which you have committed in worshipping your idols.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
“And they will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. And you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
The enemy will carry out God’s judgment. They will punish Jerusalem and Samaria for their behaviour. And God’s erstwhile people will receive the punishment that they deserve for their idolatry. Thus will they be made to recognise Who and What Yahweh really is, that He is the covenant God and requires full obedience to His covenant.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
REFLECTIONS
READER! what are your own views of human nature at large, in reading the sad account of sin and rebellion in this Chapter? And yet more what think you of the Israel of God, in beholding the baseness here manifested by a professing people to the God of Israel? What will any man think of taking confidence in himself, after such views of a fallen nature. Reader! is it not enough to cause every believer to go softly all his days? And will not such humbling representations of nature, serve, through grace, to keep open a perpetual spring of repentance and sorrow in the soul? Will it not prove, under God, the best and strongest of all arguments to hide pride from our eyes, and to divorce the heart from all legal frames and self-righteousness? Will it not also prompt the soul to look to God continually for grace, that by his Holy Spirit, we may be enabled to mortify the deeds of the body and live, in a suitable deportment of holy conversation and godliness? Above all, can anything tend equally to endear Christ in all his loveliness, and in all his glory? Oh! precious, precious Jesus! how doth every view of ourselves and all around us, bring home with increasing conviction in the soul, the absolute need we have of thee, and thy great salvation? Oh Lord! let the great improvement of this Chapter, and indeed of all thy Holy Scriptures, be to lead our hearts to thee; to live upon thee, to walk with thee, and everlastingly to enjoy thee, as the whole sum and substance of all our happiness. Truly blessed Redeemer, thou art indeed the all in all to thy people: and most gracious was it commanded the Church, to call thee by thine adorable name: the Lord Our Righteousness.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.
Ver. 49. And ye shall bear the sins, ] i.e., The punishment of your idolatry; neither shall ye have colour of cause to complain of my severity.
And ye shall know that I am the Lord God.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
sins. Hebrew. chata. App-44.
ye shall know, &c. Occurs only here, Eze 13:9; and Eze 24:24. Compare note on Eze 6:7.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
they shall: Eze 7:4, Eze 7:9, Eze 9:10, Eze 11:21, Eze 16:43, Eze 22:31, Isa 59:18
ye shall bear: Eze 23:35
and ye shall know: Eze 6:7, Eze 20:38, Eze 20:42, Eze 20:44, Eze 25:5, Psa 9:16
Reciprocal: Num 9:13 – bear his sin Deu 4:14 – General Pro 14:34 – but Isa 1:21 – become Jer 30:15 – for the Eze 14:10 – they shall Eze 16:58 – hast Eze 33:29 – shall
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 23:49. The figurative and literal terms for the same thing are again used in this verse. Lewdness means the same as idols and the unfaithful people of the Lord were to bear the sins, which means they were to bear the punishment due their sins.