Ezekiel 23:43

43 Et je dis, touchant celle qui avait vieilli dans l'adultère: Continueront-ils maintenant leurs impudicités avec elle, et elle avec eux?

Ezekiel 23:43 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:43

Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries
That had been an old adulterer or idolater; meaning either Aholah the ten tribes, who from Jeroboam's time had been guilty of idolatry; or Aholibah the two tribes, who had remained longer in their own country, and had been long given to idolatry; or both of them, as some think, the whole body of the people of Israel, who had been addicted to idolatry ever since they came out of Egypt, and so was like an old harlot indeed: now the Lord said "unto her", or "concerning her" ^F12; in his own mind, after the manner of men. So the Targum,

``I said concerning the congregation of Israel, whose people are old in sins:''

will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
will they commit adultery with such an old harlot? are they not weary of her? and will they not rather loath and despise her? as it is common when such prostitutes grow old; and what pleasure can she take, thus advanced in years, in such impurities? suggesting that alliances and confederacies between the Jews and the nations of the world could not be agreeable on either side, especially to the former; but so it was, and so were their idolatries likewise. The Targum is,

``now she will leave her idols, and return to thy worship; but she returned not.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (hlbl) "de inveterata illa", Vatablus.

Ezekiel 23:43 In-Context

41 Tu t'es assise sur un lit magnifique, devant lequel était dressée une table, et où tu as placé mon parfum et mon huile de senteur.

42 Là on entendait le bruit d'une multitude joyeuse; et parmi cette foule d'hommes, on a fait venir des Sabéens du désert, qui ont mis des bracelets aux mains des deux sœurs, et de magnifiques couronnes sur leur tête.

43 Et je dis, touchant celle qui avait vieilli dans l'adultère: Continueront-ils maintenant leurs impudicités avec elle, et elle avec eux?

44 Et l'on est venu chez elle, comme l'on va chez une prostituée; c'est ainsi qu'on est allé vers Ohola et Oholiba, ces femmes coupables.

45 Mais des hommes justes les jugeront comme on juge des femmes adultères, comme on juge celles qui répandent le sang, car elles sont adultères et il y a du sang à leurs mains.