Ezekiel 23:42

Overview - Ezekiel 23
The whoredoms of Aholah and Aholibah.
23 Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers.
36 The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both;
45 and shews their judgments.
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Ezekiel 23:42  (King James Version)
And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
 


a voice
This seems to be an account of an idolatrous festival, perhaps that of Bacchus; in which a riotous and drunken multitude assembled, adorned with bracelets and chaplets, accompanied with music, songs, and dances.
Exodus 32:6 Exodus 32:18 Exodus 32:19 ; Hosea 13:6 ; Amos 6:1-6

common sort
Hebrew multitude of men. were brought.
Job 1:15 ; Joel 3:8

Sabeans
or, drunkards. bracelets.
Ezekiel 16:11 Ezekiel 16:12 Revelation 12:3