Ezekiel 23:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

Babylonians

Ezekiel 21:19

2 Kings 20:14

2 Kings 25:1

The chaldeans

Pekod

Jeremiah 50:21

The assyrians

Genesis 2:14

Genesis 25:18

Ezra 6:22

Desirable

Ezekiel 23:6

Bible References

Babylonians

“As for you, son of man,

make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to the city.

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.”

Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, camped against it and built a siege wall all around it.

The chaldeans

The Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.

While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and took them and slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people which was not; Assyria appointed it for desert creatures—they erected their siege towers, they stripped its palaces, they made it a ruin.

Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.

Pekod

“Against the land of Merathaim, go up against it,
And against the inhabitants of

Pekod.

Slay and utterly destroy them,” declares the Lord,
“And do according to all that I have commanded you.

The assyrians

The name of the third river is

Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the

Euphrates.

They settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.

And they observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had caused them to rejoice, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to encourage them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Desirable

who were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.