Ezekiel 23:49
in Ezekiel 23They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
KJV
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord God.
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This verse in Ezekiel 23
Commentary
8 notes on this verseAnd all that is written for warning against the sins of idolatry, and confidence in an arm of flesh, and sinful leagues and confederacies with wicked people (which are the sins here meant by committing whoredom), is that others may hear and fear, and not sin after the similitude of the transgressions of Israel and Judah.
This site's exposition
I will bring up a company upon them
on Ezekiel 23:46-49
The sentence is carried out by a company that stones, dispatches with the sword, and burns the houses, the same penalty the law set for adultery now executed nationally as it was threatened in chapter 16. Henry reads the stated purpose of verse 48, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness, as the chapter's own explanation for why the allegory runs this severe, a public lesson rather than a private disgrace. Gill notes the chapter closes on the same recognition formula that ends so much of the book, ye shall know that I am the Lord God, judgment again serving the purpose the whole book states for it.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 36, 37 onwards) And the Lord said to me, saying: Son of man, do you judge Oholah and Oholibah and announce to them their crimes (or iniquities): for they are adulteresses (or have committed adultery), and there is blood on their hands, and they have committed adultery with their idols (or inventions): moreover, they have offered to devour (or have led) their sons whom they have borne to me through fire. But they have also done this to me, they have defiled my sanctuary on that day: and they have profaned my Sabbaths.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The sins - The guilt of worshipping idols; and you shall bear the punishment of idolaters.
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you,....
Thus God will assert the honour of his broken law and injured government, and let the world know what a just and jealous God he is. (2.) Thus they shall be broken off from their sins: I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
bear the sins of your idols--that is, the punishment of your idolatry. know that I am the Lord God--that is, know it to your cost . . . by bitter suffering.
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1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Ye shall bear the sins of your idols - The punishment due to your adultery; your apostasy from God, and setting up idolatry in the land.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְנָתְנ֤וּ | venatenu | and people will requite | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| זִמַּתְכֶ֙נָה֙ | zimatkhenah | licentiousness your | H2154 → | 29 times |
| עֲלֵיכֶ֔ן | ʾaleikhen | to you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| וַחֲטָאֵ֥י | vachataei | and [the] sins of | H2399 → | |
| גִלּוּלֵיכֶ֖ן | giluleikhen | idols your | H1544 → | 48 times |
| תִּשֶּׂ֑אינָה | tisenah | you will bear | H5375 → | 656 times |
| וִידַעְתֶּ֕ם | vida'tem | and you will know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| כִּ֥י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֖י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֥י | ʾadonai | [am the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִֽה׃ פ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
וְנָתְנ֤וּand people will requite
venatenuH5414 →2011 times
זִמַּתְכֶ֙נָה֙licentiousness your
zimatkhenahH2154 →29 times
עֲלֵיכֶ֔ןto you
ʾaleikhenH5921 →5755 times
וַחֲטָאֵ֥יand [the] sins of
vachataeiH2399 →
גִלּוּלֵיכֶ֖ןidols your
giluleikhenH1544 →48 times
תִּשֶּׂ֑אינָהyou will bear
tisenahH5375 →656 times
וִידַעְתֶּ֕םand you will know
vida'temH3045 →945 times
כִּ֥יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֖יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
אֲדֹנָ֥י[am the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִֽה׃ פYahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 9:10But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
it leads to
- Ezekiel 11:21
But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 7:4
I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am…
- Ezekiel 11:21
Through
Isaiah 59:18So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 17:10
I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- Isaiah 63:6
I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”
- Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
- Romans 2:6
God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
- Jeremiah 17:10
Through
Ezekiel 7:4I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am…
it leads to
- Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 6:7
The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
- Hosea 9:7
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.