{"id":21055,"date":"2022-09-24T08:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-2337\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T08:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:49:03","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-2337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-2337\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 23:37"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> 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]. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 37<\/strong>. <em> that they have committed<\/em> ] <strong> for<\/strong> they have. The blood on their hands is that of their children whom they sacrifice. See <span class='bible'>Eze 16:20-21<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Blood &#8211; <\/B>One of the chief sins of Manasseh was that he shed innocent blood <span class='bible'>2Ki 21:16<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ki 24:4<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> They have committed adultery: this seems to refer to corporal uncleannesses. <\/P> <P>Blood is in their hands; innocent blood of the murdered prophets and just men. <\/P> <P>Committed adultery; spiritual adultery, i.e. idolatry. <\/P> <P>Caused their sons to pass through the fire; most unheard of cruelty, and unnatural murders, under pretext of religion! thus <span class='bible'>Eze 16:20<\/span>. <\/P> <P>To devour them; they destroyed, took away the life of their sons in a barbarous manner. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>That they have committed adultery<\/strong>,&#8230;. Either literally, adultery with their neighbours&#8217; wives, which was a prevailing sin with this people; or figuratively, spiritual adultery, that is, idolatry:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and blood is in their hands<\/strong>; the Targum is,<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;they have shed the blood of innocents with their hands;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> the blood of prophets and righteous men, sent unto them; and the blood of their infants in sacrificing to idols, as after mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and with their idols have they committed adultery<\/strong>; 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:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them<\/strong>; their children, who were the Lord&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 37<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> To pass for them through the fire <\/strong> On Molech worship see note <span class='bible'>Eze 16:20-21<\/span>. The Baal worship was only a little less horrible. (See Vigouroux, &ldquo;Les Pretres de Baal,&rdquo; <em> Revue Biblique, <\/em> 1896.)<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 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].<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 37. <strong> And blood is in their hands.<\/strong> ] Adultery is the devil&rsquo;s nest egg, and causeth many sins to be laid one to and upon another; as here, murder, idolatry, &amp;c. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> To devour them.<\/strong> ] Not only to purge and to dedicate them.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>adultery. Put (like whoredom) for all idolatry, as being unfaithfulness to Jehovah. See note on Eze 16:15. <\/p>\n<p>caused = set apart. <\/p>\n<p>to pass, &amp;c. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 18:21; Lev 20:2-4), <\/p>\n<p>them. &#8220;Them&#8221; 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. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>they have: Eze 23:5, Eze 16:32, Hos 1:2, Hos 3:1 <\/p>\n<p>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 <\/p>\n<p>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 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 2Ki 23:10 &#8211; might make 2Ch 33:6 &#8211; caused Jer 7:10 &#8211; come Eze 20:39 &#8211; but Eze 36:18 &#8211; for the Mic 6:7 &#8211; shall<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>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].<\/p>\n<p>(o) That is, to be sacrifices to their idols, read Eze 16:20 .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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