Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:35-43
Adultery was by the law of Moses made a capital crime. This notorious adulteress, the criminal at the bar, being in the foregoing verses found guilty, here has sentence passed upon her. It is ushered in with solemnity, Eze 16:35. The prophet, as the judge, in God's name calls to her, O harlot! hear the word of the Lord. Our Saviour preached to harlots, for their conversion, to bring them into the kingdom of God, not as the prophet here, to expel them out of it. Note, An apostate church is a harlot. Jerusalem is so if she become idolatrous. How has the faithful city become a harlot! Rome is so represented in the Revelation, when it is marked for ruin, as Jerusalem here. Rev 17:1, Come, and I…
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(Eze 23:10, Eze 23:47). Compare as to the destruction under Titus, Luk 19:43-44.
Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 16:39
They shall strip thee also of thy clothes - thy fair jewels - Alluding to a lot common enough to prostitutes, their maintainers in the end stripping them of all they had given them.
John Gill on Ezekiel 16:40
They shall also bring up a company against thee,.... An army, so the Targum; the Chaldean army:
and they shall stone thee with stones: cast out of their engines and slings, by which they battered the walls, as well as killed the inhabitants; and so the Targum renders it, with sling stones; the allusion is to the stoning of adulterous persons, Deuteronomy 22:24;
and thrust thee through with their swords; such as attempted to escape out of the city, or fell into the hands of the enemy when it was taken, were slain with the sword.
John Calvin on Ezekiel 16:40
Ezekiel 16:40
40. They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
40. Et ascendere facient contra te coetum, [127] et lapidabunt te lapidibus, [128] et perfodient te gladiis suis.
Since what Ezekiel has hitherto brought forward was incredible, he now explains the manner of its accomplishment -- that the Chaldmans and Assyrians should bring a large army and bury the whole of Judea with stones, and pierce it through with swords. By these figures he simply means that there should be such slaughter that the whole region should be made desolate, just as if the enemy should slay all that they met with stones and…
