Ezekiel 23:20

20 She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose semen was like that of horses.

Ezekiel 23:20 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:20

For she doted upon their paramours
Or "concubines" ^F26; the neighbouring nations and allies of the Egyptians, whose friendship the Jews courted, and whose idols they served: the Septuagint and Arabic versions wrongly read the Chaldeans: whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue
of horses;
by "flesh" is meant the "membrum virile", which in asses is very large, and therefore dedicated to Priapus by the Heathens; and vast is the profusion of seed in coitus by horses, to which the flesh and issue of the Egyptian paramours are compared; who were very libidinous, and therefore desirable to insatiable women; all which serves to express the eagerness of the people of the Jews after idolatry.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mhyvglp) "equecubinas eorum", Vatablus, so Junius & Tremellius, Polanus; "concubitores", Munster, Tigurine version; "cinaedos", Castalio; and, as Ben Melech observes, these were men, and not women.

Ezekiel 23:20 In-Context

18 "She carried out her prostitution openly, and she lay around naked. I turned away from her in disgust as I had turned away from her sister.

19 She remembered how she had been a prostitute in Egypt when she was young. So she took part in even more prostitution.

20 She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose semen was like that of horses.

21 So she longed to do the sinful things she did when she was young in Egypt, when young men caressed and fondled her breasts.

22 "Oholibah, this is what the Almighty LORD says: I'm going to stir up your lovers against you. They are the lovers you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side.