Ezekiel 23:46

46 For thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will bring up a company upon them and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

Ezekiel 23:46 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:46

For thus saith the Lord God, I will bring up a company upon
them
Or, "do thou bring up a company upon them" ^F13, or "against them". The Targum represents it as spoken to the prophet, thus,

``prophesy that armies shall come up against them.''

Kimchi interprets it as we do, "I will bring up" and so others {n}. By this "company" is to be understood the Chaldean army, whom God in his providence, and in righteous judgment, would bring up against the Jews; styled a "convocation" ^F15, assembly or congregation, in allusion to the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, that took cognizance of such crimes, and judged and condemned for them: and will give them to be removed and spoiled;
or, "for a removing", and a "spoil" ^F16; that is, he would give the Jews into the hands of the Chaldean army; their persons to be carried captive into other lands, and their substance to be spoiled and plundered.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (lhq Mhyle hlea) (anagage ep' autav oclon) , Sept.; "adduc super eas coetum", V. L. "ascendere tac contra eas, [vel] eaos, coetum", Cocceius, Starckius.
F14 "Facium ascendere", Pagninus; "adducam", Munster, Tigurine version; "quum adduxero", Piscator.
F15 (lhq) "congretio", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "consessus judicum", Grotius, Starckius.
F16 (zblw hwezl) "commotioni et directioni", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator; "in commotionen et in praedam", Starckius.

Ezekiel 23:46 In-Context

44 for they have come to her, as those who come to a woman that plays the harlot, so they went in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

45 Therefore righteous men shall judge them by the law of adulteresses and after the law of women that shed blood because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

46 For thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will bring up a company upon them and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

47 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.

48 Thus will I cause the lust to cease out of the land that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.