46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
46 "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring a mob against them and give them over to terror and plunder.
46 For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
46 "God says, 'Let a mob loose on them: Terror! Plunder!
46 "For thus says the Lord God: 'Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder.
46 "Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring an army against them and hand them over to be terrorized and plundered.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 23:46
Chapter Contents
A history of the apostacy of God's people from him, and the aggravation thereof.
In this parable, Samaria and Israel bear the name Aholah, "her own tabernacle;" because the places of worship those kingdoms had, were of their own devising. Jerusalem and Judah bear the name of Aholibah, "my tabernacle is in her," because their temple was the place which God himself had chosen, to put his name there. The language and figures are according to those times. Will not such humbling representations of nature keep open perpetual repentance and sorrow in the soul, hiding pride from our eyes, and taking us from self-righteousness? Will it not also prompt the soul to look to God continually for grace, that by his Holy Spirit we may mortify the deeds of the body, and live in holy conversation and godliness?