Ezekiel
Ezekiel 23:19KJV·traditional attribution

Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian

Judah saw Israel's ruin and should have trembled; instead she grew worse. Those who refuse to learn from God's judgment on others have no excuse when judgment falls on them. Far worse to have your lust inflamed by what ought to break it than to stumble once and repent.

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Commenting on Ezekiel 23:11-21

John Gill Reformed Baptist

Though the Lord frowned upon them in Jehoiakim and Zedekiah's time, they multiplied their whoredoms still, renewing the very idolatries their fathers practiced in Egypt, sending ambassadors to that nation for help while they rekindled those same false worship. Their sin was not ignorance but deliberate memory of their youth in bondage, now reenacted in their own land.

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed

Israel first "called" her lusts, practised when in Egypt, "to her (fond) remembrance," and then actually returned to them. Mark the danger of suffering the memory to dwell on the pleasure felt in past sins.