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**the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 .

**Son of man** . See note on [Ezekiel 2:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/1) .
**two women.** Two sisters, representing respectively Samaria and Jerusalem.

**whoredoms** = idolatries.
**Egypt.** Compare [Ezekiel 20:7](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/7) , [Ezekiel 20:8](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/8) . pressed = handled, as in verses: [Ezekiel 23:8](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/8) , [Ezekiel 23:21](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/21) .
**bruised** = squeezed (in natural use).

**Aholah.** Hebrew. *'ahalah =* [She has] her own tent. So named probably because Israel set up her own worship as distinct from Jehovah's.
**elder.** Refers not to age, but to extent.
**Aholibah** . Hebrew. *'ahalibah =* My tent [is] in her.

**the chosen** , &c. = the choice of Asshur's sons. So. verses: [Ezekiel 23:9](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/9) , [Ezekiel 23:12](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/12) .

**famous** = a name: i.e. infamous.

**men** . Hebrew, plural *'enosh* . App-14 .

**mind** = Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-18 ,

**My mind.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .
**like as** = according as.

**calling to remembrance.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of the Cause), App-6 , for the desiring of her former idolatries.
**harlot.** Put for idolatress.
**in.** Some codices read "from", as in [Ezekiel 23:8](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/8) and [Ezekiel 23:27](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/27) .

**bruising** . Aram, and Syriac read "handling", as in [Ezekiel 23:3](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/3) .

**the Lord GOD.** Hebrew. *Adonai Jehovah* . See note on [Ezekiel 2:4](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/4) .
**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .

**Pekod . . . Shea . . . Roo.** These Eastern peoples are all named in the inscriptions,

**wagons** = chariots.
**an assembly** = a gathered host.
**people** = peoples.

**labour.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of the Cause), App-6 , for the product of the labour.

**heathen** = nations,
**idols** = manufactured gods.

**cup.** Compare [Isaiah 51:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/51/17) . [Revelation 14:9](../../../kjv/revelation/14/9) , [Revelation 14:10](../../../kjv/revelation/14/10) .

**break** : or, gnaw, lest a drop should be lost.
**pluck off** = tear out: i.e. destroy the occasions of their idolatry.
**saith the Lord GOD** = [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle.

**lewdness . . . whoredoms.** Put here by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of the Cause), App-8 , for the punishment due to the idolatry.

**adultery.** Put (like whoredom) for all idolatry, as being unfaithfulness to Jehovah. See note on [Ezekiel 16:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/16/15) .
**caused** = set apart.
**to pass,** &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 18:21](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/21) ; [Leviticus 20:2-4](../../../kjv/leviticus/20/2-4) ),
**them** . "Them" is masculine, and refers to the idols, in the first clause; and so, many codices, with six earlypriated editions (one Rabbinic). But some codices read feminine = themselves.

**defiled . . . profaned.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 19:31](../../../kjv/leviticus/19/31) ). App-92 . Compare [Ezekiel 22:8](../../../kjv/ezekiel/22/8) .

**children** = sons.
**lo** . *Figure of speech Asterismos.* App-6 .

**men.** Plural *of 'mush.* App-14 .
**wash thyself.** Compare [Ruth 3:3](../../../kjv/ruth/3/3) .
**paintedst,** he. Compare [2 Kings 9:30](../../../kjv/2-kings/9/30) . [Jeremiah 4:30](../../../kjv/jeremiah/4/30) .

**a stately bed.** Compare [Proverbs 7:16-18](../../../kjv/proverbs/7/16-18) . Isa 67:8 , Isa 67:9 ,

**multitude** , &c. = a careless throng.
**with her** : or, in her: i.e. in Jerusalem.
**men of the common sort** = men out of the mass of mankind.
**men** . Hebrew, plural of *'enosh,* App-14 .
**the common sort.** Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 .
**Sabeans** . Hebrew text reads "drunkards", But margin, and some codices, with three early printed editions, read "Sebeans".

**and she** = even hers. Ginsburg thinks it should read so it was". Compare [Ezekiel 16:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/16/15) , [Ezekiel 16:19](../../../kjv/ezekiel/16/19) .

**they went.** Hebrew text reads "came he". A special various reading called *Sevir* ( App-34 ), with some codices, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "came they".

**the righteous . . . shall judge.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 20:10](../../../kjv/leviticus/20/10) ). App-92 .

**company** = a gathered host.

**sins.** Hebrew. *chata.* App-44 .
**ye shall know,** &c. Occurs only here, [Ezekiel 13:9](../../../kjv/ezekiel/13/9) ; and [Ezekiel 24:24](../../../kjv/ezekiel/24/24) . Compare note on [Ezekiel 6:7](../../../kjv/ezekiel/6/7) .

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