Ezekiel - 23:48



48 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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Explanation and meaning of Ezekiel 23:48.

Differing Translations

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And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.
And I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, and all women shall receive instruction and shall not do according to your lewdness.
And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, And instructed have been all the women, And they do not according to your wickedness.
And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done.
And I will take away wickedness from the land. And all women shall learn not to act according to their wickedness.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

To cease - Because they are stricken and consumed. Compare marginal reference.
All women - i. e., all countries.

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease - Idolatry; and from that time to the present day the Jews never relapsed into idolatry.

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all (t) women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
(t) Meaning, all other cities and countries.

Thus will I cause to cease lewdness out of the land,.... There being no opportunity for it, nor any to commit it; what were not destroyed by famine, sword, and pestilence, during the siege, were carried captive; and, when they returned, were never more given to idolatry; see Ezekiel 23:27,
that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness; that is, that all provinces, as the Targum, all kingdoms; states, churches, and people, hearing and reading the judgments of God on this people for their idolatry, may learn to shun it; it is even an instruction to us, at this distance, not to commit idolatry, as they did, 1-Corinthians 10:7. The church of Rome ought to observe this.

(Ezekiel 23:27).
that all . . . may be taught not to do, &c.-- (Deuteronomy 13:11).

Lewdness - Idolatry. And indeed we do not read of any after their return out of this captivity.

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