43<\/strong>. unto her old in adulteries<\/em> ] Old<\/em> is worn out, e.g. of clothes, Jos 9:4-5<\/span>, and the verb of the body, in the decay of nature (Gen 18:12<\/span>, of Sarah). The construction of A.V. is unusual; the words might be read as an exclamation: She that is aged committeth adulteries! or, With her that is aged shall they commit adulteries! Ew., reading “aged” as a noun, To perdition with adulteries! None of these senses is very natural. LXX., as in some other places, appears to assume a contraction, which it expands, Do they not commit adultery with these?<\/p>\n The meaning put by A.V., R.V. upon the rest of the verse can hardly be drawn from the words, which are extremely obscure. The natural sense is: “now shall her whoredom commit whoredom even itself” (Hitz.); but the idea that what the faded harlot can no more do herself her vicious propensity continues to do, though true in itself, is scarcely to be expected here. LXX., which had nearly our present text before it, disposes the letters differently: And she too has gone a whoring after the manner (with the doings) of a harlot. So Syr., And according to the doings of harlots have they committed whoredom.<\/p>\n Will they now commit … – <\/B>Rather, Now shall there be committed her whoredom, even this; i. e., when Israel and Judah had courted these alliances God said in wrath, This sin too shall be committed, and so (not yet) they went in; the alliances were made according to their desires, and then followed the consequent punishment.<\/P><\/p>\n Then said I; after the manner of man God seems to stand musing, or saying to himself, or it may be supposed that God speaks to the prophet, asking him. <\/P> Unto her; or rather, of her, concerning her. <\/P> Old in adulteries, such usually are out of request with adulterers; and now Samaria and Jerusalem had been long spiritual adulteresses, and one would think her lovers would be weary of her, if she were not weary of them. <\/P> <\/p>\n 43. Will they,<\/B> &c.Is itpossible that paramours will desire any longer to commit whoredomswith so worn-out an old adulteress?<\/P><\/p>\n Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries<\/strong>,…. That had been an old adulterer or idolater; meaning either Aholah the ten tribes, who from Jeroboam’s time had been guilty of idolatry; or Aholibah the two tribes, who had remained longer in their own country, and had been long given to idolatry; or both of them, as some think, the whole body of the people of Israel, who had been addicted to idolatry ever since they came out of Egypt, and so was like an old harlot indeed: now the Lord said “unto her”, or “concerning her” l; in his own mind, after the manner of men. So the Targum,<\/p>\n “I said concerning the congregation of Israel, whose people are old in sins:”<\/p>\n will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them<\/strong>? will they commit adultery with such an old harlot? are they not weary of her? and will they not rather loath and despise her? as it is common when such prostitutes grow old; and what pleasure can she take, thus advanced in years, in such impurities? suggesting that alliances and confederacies between the Jews and the nations of the world could not be agreeable on either side, especially to the former; but so it was, and so were their idolatries likewise. The Targum is,<\/p>\n “now she will leave her idols, and return to thy worship; but she returned not.”<\/p>\n l “de inveterata illa”, Vatablus.<\/p>\n (43) Will they now commit?<\/strong>This should not be made a question, nor should the opening of Eze. 23:44<\/span> be made adversative. The thought is that, after all means of reclamation had failed, God gave her up to her sins. Translate, Now shall her whoredom be committed, even this. And they went in, &c. 43<\/strong>. <\/strong> Mosheh Ben Shesheth renders: “As I looked I thought: Can it be that a woman who is old and decrepit will commit adultery? Or is it not enough that she has grown old in whoredoms? No; therefore even these have come to commit them with her?(or, Will they not take away all her gains and herself as well?).” This shows how uncertain the Hebrew text is. The picture seems to be that of a woman worn out in sin, yet still attempting to carry on her old life. It of course refers to Jerusalem coqueting with foreign alliances and foreign idolatries.<\/p>\n “Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now will they commit whoredoms with her, and she with them’. And they went in to her as they go into a prostitute, so they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.<\/p>\n The sad picture of an aged prostitute depicts the depths to which Samaria and Jerusalem had fallen. But they had still refused to turn back to God, indeed they had become more and more involved in widespread idolatry as we have seen earlier (see for example chapter 8).<\/p>\n Eze 23:43 Then said I unto [her that was] old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she [with them]?<\/p>\n Ver. 43. To her that was old in adulteries.<\/strong> ] Inveteratae et detritae,<\/em> withered and overworn. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And she with them?<\/strong> ] Is she – as Helen was – the same still, no changeling yet?<\/p>\n NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 23:43-45<\/p>\n 43Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adulteries, ‘Will they now commit adultery with her when she is thus?’ 44But they went in to her as they would go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. 45But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.<\/p>\n Eze 23:43 See note at Eze 23:42-43.<\/p>\n Eze 23:44 they went in to This is a Hebrew idiom for sexual intercourse (e.g., Gen 6:4; Gen 24:67; Gen 38:2; Gen 38:8-9; Gen 38:16; Gen 38:18; Gen 39:14; Deu 22:13).<\/p>\n Eze 23:45<\/p>\n NASBBut they, righteous men, will judge them<\/p>\n NKJVBut righteous men will judge them<\/p>\n NRSVBut righteous judges shall declare them<\/p>\n TEVRighteous men will condemn them<\/p>\n NJBAll the same, there are upright men who will judge them<\/p>\n This is the use of righteous (BDB 843) as fair. This does not refer to people who know and follow YHWH. In context it refers to YHWH’s instruments of judgment, Assyria and Babylon, and that His judgment on Israel and Judah was deserved!<\/p>\n and she = even hers. Ginsburg thinks it should read so it was”. Compare Eze 16:15, Eze 16:19. <\/p>\n Eze 23:43-49<\/p>\n Eze 23:43-49<\/p>\n “Then said I of her who is old in adulteries. Now will they play the harlot with her? and she with them? And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholab, and unto Oholibah, the lewd women. And the righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 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 Jehovah.”<\/p>\n “The righteous men, they will judge them …” (Eze 23:45). “We need not look for righteous men here. The evil men who “judged” Judah were righteous only in the understanding that the sentence which they carried out against her was just and fully in keeping with the Word of God.<\/p>\n Thus ends the tragic allegory of Oholah and Oholibah. A summary of why they deserved the awful fate which they endured must be understood as (1) their forgetting God and relying upon alliances with evil nations for their protection, (2) forgetting God and wallowing in the sensuous debaucheries connected with their shameless worshipping the pagan fertility gods, resulting in the total wreck of the nation’s morality, and (3) forgetting God and the profaning of his sanctuary, his sabbaths, and their whole land, along with their forsaking all of his holy commandments and ordinances. They were indeed ruined morally, socially, religiously, and militarily. Israel as a separate people were no longer of any value whatever to their God as a witness to the pagan nations concerning the true God and his will for mankind. There was absolutely nothing left for God to do, except to destroy them, as God had once destroyed all mankind in the Great Deluge, and to begin over again with that “righteous remnant” which would result from the terrible discipline of the captivity.<\/p>\n Two Adulterous Sisters – Eze 23:1-49<\/p>\n Open It<\/p>\n 1. In what ways are you and your siblings alike or different? <\/p>\n 2. In your opinion how difficult is it to change patterns of behavior that are developed during your youth? <\/p>\n Explore It<\/p>\n 3. Who was represented by the two sisters in Ezekiels parable? (23:1-4) <\/p>\n 4. Where were the two sisters first guilty of unfaithfulness and prostitution? (23:3) <\/p>\n 5. After what nations warriors did the first sister, representing Samaria, lust? (23:5-8) <\/p>\n 6. What other sin followed along with “prostitution”? (23:7) <\/p>\n 7. To what judgment did God hand over Oholah, the first sister? (23:9-10) <\/p>\n 8. How did the one woman behave when she saw what happened to her sister? (23:11-13) <\/p>\n 9. In what way did Oholibah (Judah) go farther than Oholah in her sin? (23:14-21) <\/p>\n 10. What did God promise would happen to Oholibah? (23:22-24) <\/p>\n 11. Whose standards of punishment would be applied against Judah? (23:24-26) <\/p>\n 12. What words are used to describe what would be Judahs condition after she was judged? (23:28-34) <\/p>\n 13. What attitude toward God compelled Him to allow Judahs suffering? (23:35) <\/p>\n 14. What sins did the Lord list that He held against Israel and Judah? (23:36-41) <\/p>\n 15. To whom did even the children of prostitutes belong? (23:37) <\/p>\n 16. How would the two sisters be treated by evil men and righteous men, respectively? (23:42-45) <\/p>\n 17. How did God intend to put an end to the prostitution of His people? (23:46-48) <\/p>\n Get It<\/p>\n 18. How might the people of Judah have felt about being told they were worse than Israel, which had already suffered Gods judgment? <\/p>\n 19. When have you wanted something that, once attained, ultimately disappointed you? <\/p>\n 20. How can we expect to be treated by others if we treat ourselves with contempt? <\/p>\n 21. Why, once we have given into one sin, does it become easier to go on to something worse? <\/p>\n 22. How does God feel about little ones, regardless of the circumstances of their conception or birth? <\/p>\n 23. In what sense was the Babylonian invasion and exile an instance of Gods people bearing the consequences of their own actions? <\/p>\n Apply It<\/p>\n 24. What negative pattern from your childhood or youth do you need to “unlearn” with Gods help? <\/p>\n 25. When you feel the lure of power, wealth, or inordinate pleasure, how can you counteract it and remain faithful to God? <\/p>\n old: Ezr 9:7, Psa 106:6, Jer 13:23, Dan 9:16 <\/p>\n whoredoms with her: Heb. her whoredoms <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Jer 32:30 – children Hos 2:2 – let<\/p>\n Eze 23:43. Men who are intent on full gratification of their lusts do not generally care for a worn out and old woman. These wives of the Lord were old at that business, hence He asks if these men will be satisfied with them.<\/p>\n Eze 23:43-44. Then I said unto her that was grown old in adulteries Aholibah, who had been long idolatrous. The words import that experience might, before this time, have sufficiently convinced her of the folly of her ways. Will they now commit whoredoms with her? God is here represented as waiting to see whether that mutability, which is natural to the human race, would not occasion a difference between the Jewish people and their idolatrous allies, and make them grow weary of one another. Yet they went in unto her, &c. Both Samaria and Jerusalem continued to defile themselves with the idolatries of all the heathen round about them: compare Eze 23:7; Eze 23:17.<\/p>\n The Lord marveled that the nations would find Samaria and Jerusalem attractive partners since they had proved to be such unsatisfying lovers for so long. Yet they did. There is hardly anyone more pathetic and disgusting than an old whore. However, righteous people would pass judgment on the sisters as adulteresses who had blood on their hands. The enemies of Israel were righteous in judging her, not that they were right with God spiritually. They may have even been more righteous in their conduct than the Israelites. [Note: Cooper, p. 233; and Fisch, p. 159.] <\/span> Other interpreters believe that the righteous in view may be the spiritual leaders of the remnant of faithful believers in Israel (cf. Deu 22:13-21). [Note: Feinberg, p. 136; and Dyer, "Ezekiel," p. 1273.] <\/span><\/p>\n Then said I unto [her that was] old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she [with them]? 43. unto her old in adulteries ] Old is worn out, e.g. of clothes, Jos 9:4-5, and the verb of the body, in the decay of nature (Gen 18:12, of Sarah). 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