Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Ezekiel 16:21
That thou hast slain My children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? namely, for the idols,
That thou hast slain My children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? namely, for the idols,
Verse Ezekiel 16:21. _TO CAUSE THEM TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE_] Bp. _Newcome_ quotes a very apposite passage from _Dionysius Halicarnass_. Ant. Rom. lib. i., s. 88, p. 72, and marg. p. 75, Edit. Hudso...
BORNE UNTO ME - me is emphatic. The children of Yahweh have been devoted to Moloch. The rites of Moloch were twofold; (1) The actual sacrifice of men and children as expiatory sacrifices to, false go...
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...
SLAIN MY CHILDREN. See note on Ezekiel 16:20, above. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:21). App-92. CHILDREN. sons....
_hast … delivered them_ Or, DIDST DELIVER them up, in causing them, as R.V. The child passed into the possession of the deity when consumed in the fire....
The wife's infidelities Israel's idolatries and idolatrous alliances with foreign nations The idolatries of Israel are represented figuratively as a wife's infidelities against her husband, as had be...
All the gifts of Jehovah to her she took and bestowed on idols: her raiment (Ezekiel 16:16_; Ezekiel 16:18_), her gold and silver (Ezekiel 16:17), and her delicate fare ...
C. The Infidelity of the Bride 16:15-34 TRANSLATION (15) But you trusted in your beauty, and committed harlotry because of your reputation, and poured out your harlotries upon all who passed by; it b...
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, THY SONS AND THY...
16:21 them? (a-16) Or 'in causing them to pass through [the fire] unto them;' or 'setting apart for them,' as Exodus 13:12 . the like in ch. 20.26....
RITUAL OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (See also Leviticus 23:26; Numbers 29:7; Exodus 30:10.) This solemn ceremonial took place once a year on the tenth day of the seventh month (_Tishri_ = September). It w...
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...
וַֽ תִּשְׁחֲטִ֖י אֶת ־בָּנָ֑י וַֽ תִּתְּנִ֔ים...
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...
We have here, under the same figure, carried on, of the sad departures which, even after grace, is too often discoverable in the Church. Israel, of old, to whom the Prophet is speaking, was remarkable...
He strengthens the same sentence, and more clearly explains that they offered their sons and daughters by cruelly sacrificing them when they passed them through the fire. This was a kind of purifying,...
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...
THAT THOU HAST SLAIN MY CHILDREN,.... By creation, as all born into the world are; and by national adoption, as all the Jewish children were; and particularly the firstborn were eminently his, and whi...
_That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through [the fire] for them?_ Ver. 21. _That thou hast slain my children._] Note that he yet calleth them his children, tho...
_Thou hast taken thy sons, &c., whom thou hast borne unto me_ Being married to me by a spiritual contract, Ezekiel 16:8. The children, with whom I blessed thee, were mine, being entered into covenant...
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...
Thy blind superstition called this religion, and accounted it sacrifice, but truth is it was unnatural murder; it is as if thou hadst cut their throat, nay, worse, because it put them to greater tortu...
Ezekiel 16:21 slain H7819 (H8799) children H1121 offered H5414 (H8799) through H5674 (H8687) my children -...
“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these you have sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whoredoms a small matter that you have slain my childr...
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...
_Thou hast also taken thy fair Jewels of My gold._ THE DEGRADING NATURE OF SIN Manton says, “If you saw a man labouring in filthy ditches, and soiling himself as poor men do, would you believe that h...
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
ISRAEL’S APOSTACY FROM GOD (Ezekiel 16:15) EXEGETICAL NOTES. Its origin and nature (Ezekiel 16:15); its magnitude and extent (Ezekiel 16:23)....
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 16:3; Ezekiel 16:43; Ezekiel 16:60; Hosea 11:1; Hosea 2:3;...
For them — For the idols....