Ezekiel 23:41

41 You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.

Ezekiel 23:41 in Other Translations

41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

41 You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.

41 You sat with them on a beautifully embroidered couch and put my incense and my special oil on a table that was spread before you.

41 They reclined on a sumptuous bed, aromatic with incense and oils - my incense and oils!

41 You sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and oil.

Ezekiel 23:41 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:41

And satest upon a stately bed
Or honourable ^F7, a bed of state: either a throne, a royal seat under a canopy, on which the king of Judah sat to receive foreign ambassadors; or a stately bed at a feast, made for the entertainment of them; it being usual in the eastern nations to sit on beds at eating, to which the next clause agrees. The allusion is to a harlot sitting on a bed decked out by her to allure men to lie with her; see ( Proverbs 7:16 ) : and a table prepared before it;
before the bed, furnished with the richest provisions to treat the ambassadors with; or this may design an altar built for them to offer on it sacrifices to their idols, according to the customs of their countries: whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil;
which were the gifts of God to this people, and which they should have used in his service; but with these they treated the ministers of Heathen princes; scenting the room where they were entertained with incense, and anointing their heads and feet with oil, for their pleasure and refreshment; or they offered these on the altars of the idols to them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (hdwbk) "honorato", Junius and Tremellius, Polanus, Coeccius, Starckius.

Ezekiel 23:41 In-Context

39 On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated it. That is what they did in my house.

40 “They even sent messengers for men who came from far away, and when they arrived you bathed yourself for them, applied eye makeup and put on your jewelry.

41 You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.

42 “The noise of a carefree crowd was around her; drunkards were brought from the desert along with men from the rabble, and they put bracelets on the wrists of the woman and her sister and beautiful crowns on their heads.

43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is.’

Cross References

• 1. S Esther 1:6; S Proverbs 7:17; Amos 6:4
• 2. Isaiah 65:11; Ezekiel 41:22; Ezekiel 44:16; Malachi 1:7,12
• 3. Isaiah 57:9; S Isaiah 65:3; S Jeremiah 44:5
• 4. S Numbers 18:12