Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:57

57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

The time of her pride, security, and sin was when they were not afflicted, and despised by the Syrians.

Thy abominable doings were made known to thy self, to thy friends and Enemies too, by the execution of the severe menaces, and sad predictions of my Prophets, who foretold what punishments, and what shame this sinful people shou'd suffer, by the hands of the Syrians, who shou'd waste the Iews, and deride them, burn their Cities, and carry Citizens captives, as in the time of Ahaz over Iudah, and R[illegible: 1 letter]zin over Syria.

The nations that were round about in vicinity, and combined in League against the house of David.

Either Ierusalem, or Syria, rather this latter, the chief whereof were the Philistines called here the daughters of the Philistines, as Isa. 9.12.

Contemn thee, as an impotent, as well as wicked people, a people which had deserved to be enslaved, and over whom they might at pleasure make a King.

Marginal references: 2 King. 16.5. 2 Chr. 28.18. Isa. 7.1. and 14.28.