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Ezekiel 16:39

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, the temples and tire objects of idolatry; they shall strip thee also of thy clothes and shall take thy fair jewels, the articles of splendor with which she bedecked herself, and leave thee naked and bare, deprived of the honor and dignity which belonged to the people of God by virtue of their election to this position.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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:...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    EMINENT PLACES. — See Note on Ezekiel 16:24. The destruction of her idolatries as well as the desolation of Israel herself is foretold....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נָתַתִּ֨י אֹותָ֜ךְ בְּ יָדָ֗ם וְ הָרְס֤וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _House; the temple, which thou hast profaned, and the high places. The idols shall be plundered, in which thou hast trusted._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THY FAIR JEWELS: _ Heb._ instruments of thine ornament...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 16:39 give H5414 (H8804) hand H3027 down H2040 (H8804) shrines H1354 down H5422 (H8765) places...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 16:35 BECAUSE... THEREFORE (vv. Ezekiel 16:36 and v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:47; Ezekiel 24:21; Habakkuk 1:6; Jere

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