Ezekiel 23:42
accompanied by the sound of a carefree crowd. Drunkards were brought in from the desert along with men from the rabble, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your head.
Note Or Sabeans
And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Note of the…: Heb. of the multitude of men
Note Sabeans: or, drunkards
“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of them twain, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- a voice
- This seems to be an account of an idolatrous festival, perhaps that of Bacchus; in which a riotous and drunken multitude assembled, adorned with bracelets and chaplets, accompanied with music, songs, and dances.
- Exodus 32:6, 18, 19; Hosea 13:6; Amos 6:1–6
- common sort
- Heb. multitude of men. were brought.
- Job 1:15; Joel 3:8
- Sabeans
- or, drunkards. bracelets.
- Ezekiel 16:11, 12; Revelation 12:3