Ezekiel 23:46

46 "For thus saith the Lord GOD: I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and despoiled.

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 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot; so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.

45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses and after the manner of women that shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is in their hands.

46 "For thus saith the Lord GOD: I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and despoiled.

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 lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do according to your lewdness.