Ezekiel 23:26
in Ezekiel 23They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.
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ASV
They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
KJV
They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
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This verse in Ezekiel 23
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThey shall also strip thee out of thy clothes,.... As such who are taken captives are usually served: and take away, thy fair jewels; their ornaments of every kind: or "the vessels of thy glory" (c); Kimchi observes this may be meant either of the garments of the priests, and the vessels of the sanctuary; or of whole spoil of the city in general, whether in the temple, or in other houses. (c) כלי תפארתך "vasa gloria tuae", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "instrumenta ornatus tui", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator; "vasa ornatus tui", Starckius.
This site's exposition
I will raise up thy lovers against thee
on Ezekiel 23:22-27
The Lord raises up Jerusalem's own former lovers, the Babylonians and their allies. Keil reads the mutilation named at verse 25 against known penalties for adultery in the surrounding cultures. Fairbairn notes the stripping of clothes and jewels at verse 26 answers the ornaments the Lord gave in chapter 16.
This site's exposition
take your fine jewelry
Captives were stripped of clothes and jewelry. Gill noted that the Hebrew can be read as the vessels of your glory. The fine things Jerusalem spent on her lovers are taken by those same lovers.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(v. 22ff.) Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side: the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and with a host of peoples.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
They shall also strip thee - See on Eze 16:39 (note).
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִפְשִׁיט֖וּךְ | vehifshitukh | and they will strip off you | H6584 → | 43 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בְּגָדָ֑יִךְ | begadayikh | clothes your | H899 → | 217 times |
| וְלָקְח֖וּ | velakechu | and they will take away | H3947 → | 966 times |
| כְּלֵ֥י | kelei | [the] articles of | H3627 → | 325 times |
| תִפְאַרְתֵּֽךְ׃ | tifartekh | beauty your | H8597 → | 51 times |
וְהִפְשִׁיט֖וּךְand they will strip off you
vehifshitukhH6584 →43 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
בְּגָדָ֑יִךְclothes your
begadayikhH899 →217 times
וְלָקְח֖וּand they will take away
velakechuH3947 →966 times
כְּלֵ֥י[the] articles of
keleiH3627 →325 times
תִפְאַרְתֵּֽךְ׃beauty your
tifartekhH8597 →51 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
Jeremiah 13:22And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
it leads to
- Nahum 3:5
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
- Jeremiah 16:10–11
When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have…
- Jeremiah 5:19
And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods…
- Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
- Jeremiah 13:26
So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
- Nahum 3:5
Through
Ezekiel 16:39Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and…
it leads to
- Hosea 2:3
Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her…
- Ezekiel 16:24–25
you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
- Hosea 2:3
Through
Ezekiel 16:16You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
it leads to
- 2 Kings 23:7
He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
- 2 Kings 23:7
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.