George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 16:39
House; the temple, which thou hast profaned, and the high places. The idols shall be plundered, in which thou hast trusted.
House; the temple, which thou hast profaned, and the high places. The idols shall be plundered, in which thou hast trusted.
Verse Ezekiel 16:39. _THEY SHALL STRIP THEE ALSO OF THY CLOTHES - THY FAIR_ _JEWELS_] Alluding to a lot common enough to prostitutes, their maintainers in the end stripping them of all they had given...
Judah is now represented as undergoing the punishment adjudged to an adulteress and murderess. Only in her utter destruction shall the wrath of the Lord, the jealous God, cease. Ezekiel 16:36 FILTHIN...
Ezekiel 16:1. This chapter consists of four sections: 1. The parable of the abandoned child. 2. Jerusalem's idolatries and moral degradation (Ezekiel 16:15). 3. The doom of Jerusalem and the promise o...
Punishment of the adulterous wife, and child-murderer This punishment is described in somewhat mixed figures: first, Ezekiel 16:36, in a figure which tends to pass into a literal account of the destr...
On "eminent place" and "high places," see Ezekiel 16:24. _strip thee … of thy clothes_ Reference is probably to a barbarous practice of publicly exposing the adulteress, Ezekiel 16:37. Ch. Ezekiel 23:...
D. The Punishment of the Harlot 16:35-43 TRANSLATION (35) Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD! (36) Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness revea...
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. I WILL JUDGE THEE, AS WOMEN THAT BREAK WEDLOCK - (; cf. ). In the case o...
THE FOUNDLING CHILD WHO BECAME AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE From Hosea onwards the prophets spoke of idolatry under the figure of unchastity. God was the husband of Israel, but she proved unfaithful to Him. Thi...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 16 JERUSALEM IS LIKE A *PROSTITUTE – EZEKIEL 16:1-63 * Thr...
EMINENT PLACES. — See Note on Ezekiel 16:24. The destruction of her idolatries as well as the desolation of Israel herself is foretold....
וְ נָתַתִּ֨י אֹותָ֜ךְ בְּ יָדָ֗ם וְ הָרְס֤וּ
JERUSALEM-AN IDEAL HISTORY Ezekiel 16:1 IN order to understand the place which the sixteenth chapter occupies in this section of the book, we must remember that a chief source of the antagonism betwe...
The second figure was that of the adulteress, and this the prophet wrought out at great length. Jerusalem was arraigned on account of her abominations, which were described under the figure of that sp...
What is here said comes in as the suitable conclusion of such daring rebellion as Israel had, in the preceding paragraph, been accused of. If Israel hath thus played the harlot, what shall arise, or w...
Here Ezekiel enlarges upon God’s judgment, when he teaches that the Jews would not only be exposed to every disgrace, as if they were brought forward into a noble and conspicuous theater, but they wou...
In reading chapter 16 it must be remembered that Jerusalem is the subject, and not Israel. Moreover, the subject treated of is not redemption, but God's dealings. He had caused to live, He had cleanse...
AND I ALSO WILL GIVE THEE INTO THEIR HAND,.... Into the hand of their lovers and enemies that should be gathered against them, the Assyrians and Chaldeans, with others that joined them, as in Ezekiel...
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewel...
_Behold, I will gather all thy lovers_ Those allies, whose friendship thou hast courted, by complying with their idolatries; _with all them that thou hast hated_ As Edom, Moab, and Ammon: who were alw...
THE PUNISHMENT OF THE LORD ANNOUNCED...
And I will also give thee into their hand, so that the former witnesses would be executors of the Lord's sentence, AND THEY SHALL THROW DOWN THINE EMINENT PLACE AND SHALL BREAK DOWN THY HIGH PLACES, t...
THY FAIR JEWELS: _ Heb._ instruments of thine ornament...
1-58 In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This i...
This particularly describes the manner in which God will do what he threatens. I WILL GIVE THEE, as a judge delivers the condemned into the hand of the executioner. Their hand; power and exasperated r...
Ezekiel 16:39 give H5414 (H8804) hand H3027 down H2040 (H8804) shrines H1354 down H5422 (H8765) places...
“I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your eminent place, and break down your lofty places, and they will strip you of your clothes, and take your fair jewels, and they will...
In this very remarkable chapter, God describes his ancient people Israel under the figure of an infant which had been cast away, but which he had cared for and tended, and upon which he had lavished m...
CONTENTS: The harlotry of Jerusalem, and threatening of destroying judgments. Promises of future blessing under the new covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Let not men flatter themselves...
Ezekiel 16:3. _Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite,_ a Chittith, a family of immodesty. The Israelites gloried in their descent from the holy patriarchs, heirs of the promises; but the...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 16:1 Chapter Ezekiel 16:1 includes brutal violence and shocking sexual language. It shows that the infidelity of Jerusalem has brought upon it the just punishment of God. In no
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 16:35 BECAUSE... THEREFORE (vv. Ezekiel 16:36 and v....
ISRAEL’S PUNISHMENT WILL CORRESPOND WITH HER SINS. (Ezekiel 16:35) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 16:35. “BECAUSE THY FILTHINESS WAS POURED OUT.” Heb. “Because thy brass has been lavished.” Brass is used...
EXPOSITION The section on which we now enter, with its companion picture in Ezekiel 23:1; forms the most terrible, one might almost say the most repellent, part of Ezekiel's prophetic utterances. We h...
CHAPTER 16. THE STORY OF ISRAEL'S GUILT AND PUNISHMENT. Ezekiel 16:1. _And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 16:2. _Son of man, make Jerusalem know her abominations,_ Ezekiel 16:3....
Shall we turn in our Bibles at this time to the sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel. The prophecy of Ezekiel, chapter 16. Ezekiel declares, Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause...
Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:47; Ezekiel 24:21; Habakkuk 1:6; Jere