Ezekiel 23:48
in Ezekiel 23So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
KJV
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
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This verse in Ezekiel 23
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThus will I cause lewdness to cease - Idolatry; and from that time to the present day the Jews never relapsed into idolatry.
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 Awakening4 voices
And 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.
Smite the scorner and the simple will beware. The judgments of God upon some are designed to teach others, and happy are those who receive instruction from them not to tread in the steps of sinners, lest they be taken in their snares; those who would be taught this must know God is the Lord (
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Thus will I cause to cease lewdness out of the land,....
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 words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִשְׁבַּתִּ֥י | vehishbati | and I will cause to cease | H7673 → | 71 times |
| זִמָּ֖ה | zimah | licentiousness | H2154 → | 29 times |
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הָאָ֑רֶץ | haaretz | the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| וְנִֽוַּסְּרוּ֙ | venivaseru | and they will be warned | H3256 → | |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַנָּשִׁ֔ים | hanashim | the women | H802 → | 781 times |
| וְלֹ֥א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תַעֲשֶׂ֖ינָה | taaseinah | they will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| כְּזִמַּתְכֶֽנָה׃ | kezimatkhenah | like licentiousness your | H2154 → | 29 times |
וְהִשְׁבַּתִּ֥יand I will cause to cease
vehishbatiH7673 →71 times
זִמָּ֖הlicentiousness
zimahH2154 →29 times
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הָאָ֑רֶץthe land
haaretzH776 →2504 times
וְנִֽוַּסְּרוּ֙and they will be warned
venivaseruH3256 →
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
הַנָּשִׁ֔יםthe women
hanashimH802 →781 times
וְלֹ֥אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
תַעֲשֶׂ֖ינָהthey will do
taaseinahH6213 →2628 times
כְּזִמַּתְכֶֽנָה׃like licentiousness your
kezimatkhenahH2154 →29 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
2 Peter 2:6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
it leads to
- Jude 1:7
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…
- Luke 17:28–30
It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
- Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…
- Numbers 26:10
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.
- Genesis 19:24–25
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Jude 1:7
Through
Ezekiel 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars…
it leads to
- Zechariah 13:2
And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 5:14
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
- Zechariah 13:2
Through
Ezekiel 23:27So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’
it leads to
- Ezekiel 16:41
Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
- Ezekiel 16:41
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
