They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.
God had often spoken to Ezekiel, and by him to the people, to this effect, but now his word comes again; for God speaks the same thing once, yea, twice, yea, many a time, and all little enough, and too little, for man perceives it not.
Commenting on Ezekiel 23:1-10
And they committed whoredoms in Egypt,.... When they were but one body, one nation; and while they sojourned as strangers in that land they learned and practised the idolatries of it, Jos 24:14, and so the Targum, "and they erred in Egypt, after the worship of their idols they erred, and there they corrupted their works:'' they committed whoredoms in their youth; as soon as...
Even so early in their history as their Egyptian sojourn, they committed idolatries (see on Eze 20:6-8; Jos 24:14). in their youth--an aggravation of their sin. It was at the very time of their receiving extraordinary favors from God (Eze 16:6, Eze 16:22). they bruised--namely, the Egyptians.