Ezekiel 23:25-29
I will set Ezek 5:13, Ezek 8:1-18, Ezek 16:38-42; Exod 34:14; Deut 29:20, Deut 32:21-22; Prov 6:34; Song 8:6; Zeph 1:18 they shall take away This refers to the severe vengeance which enraged husbands took on their faithless wives, and implies that God would employ the Chaldeans to destroy the princes and priests of Judah, for violating their covenants and treaties. Such punishments were anciently common; and such is the present practice in one of the South Sea Islands. they shall take thy Ezek 23:47; Hos 2:4-5 thy residue Ezek 15:6-7, Ezek 20:47-48, Ezek 22:18-22; Rev 18:8 strip Ezek 23:29, Ezek 16:16, Ezek 16:37, Ezek 16:39; Jer 13:22; Hos 2:3, Hos 2:9-10; Rev 17:16, Rev 18:14-17 fair jewels Heb. instruments of thy decking, Isa 3:17-24; 1Pet 3:3-4 will I Ezek 16:41, Ezek 22:15; Isa 27:9; Mic 5:10-14; Zech 13:2 and thy Ezek 23:3, Ezek 23:19 so that These severe judgments shall effectually deter you from idolatry, and make you abhor the least approaches to it. This often repeated prediction has received a most wonderful accomplishment. For neither the authority, frowns, examples, or favour of their conquerors or powerful neighbours, nor their own fears, hopes, interests, or predilection for the sensual worship of idols, could prevail with them to run into gross idolatry, either during the captivity, or ever afterwards, to the present day, a period of 2,414 years. whom thou Ezek 23:17, Ezek 23:22, Ezek 16:37; Jer 21:7-10, Jer 24:8, Jer 34:20 deal Ezek 23:25-26, Ezek 23:45-47, Ezek 16:39; Deut 28:47-51; 2Sam 13:15 the nakedness Ezek 23:18, Ezek 16:36-37
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