You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
Jerusalem stands indicted by the name of Aholibah, for that she, as a false traitor to her sovereign Lord the God of heaven, not having his fear before her eyes, but moved by the instigation of the devil, had revolted from her allegiance to him, had compassed and imagined to shake off his government, had kept up a correspondence had joined in confederacy with his...
Commenting on Ezekiel 23:22-49
And satest upon a stately bed,.... Or honourable (g), a bed of state: either a throne, a royal seat under a canopy, on which the king of Judah sat to receive foreign ambassadors; or a stately bed at a feast, made for the entertainment of them; it being usual in the eastern nations to sit on beds at eating, to which the next clause agrees.
bed--divan. While men reclined at table, women sat, as it seemed indelicate for them to lie down (Amo 6:4) [GROTIUS]. table--that is, the idolatrous altar. mine incense--which I had given thee, and which thou oughtest to have offered to Me (Eze 16:18-19; Hos 2:8; compare Pro 7:17).