Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Ezekiel 16:41
And they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
And they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
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...
WOMEN: i.. idolaters, or idolatrous cities....
_thine houses with fire_ A summary method of punishment often adopted, as by the Philistines on Samson's father-in-law (Judges 15:6); threatened by Ephraim on Jephthah (Judges 12:1). Comp. also the su...
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...
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 they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any mo...
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...
MANY WOMEN] the neighbouring nations....
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...
SHALL BURN THINE HOUSE. — Comp. Deuteronomy 13:16. The figurative and the literal sense here blend together; the house of the unfaithful wife shall be destroyed, and the houses of Jerusalem shall be b...
וְ שָׂרְפ֤וּ בָתַּ֨יִךְ֙ בָּ † אֵ֔שׁ וְ...
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...
_Women: nations assembled against Jerusalem._...
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...
After he had spoken of the slaughter of men, he adds the burning of their dwellings. This was sad indeed, that the whole land should be deprived of inhabitants: but the deformity of this last slaughte...
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 THEY SHALL BURN THINE HOUSES WITH FIRE,.... As the houses in Jerusalem were by Nebuchadnezzar's army, even the temple, the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the houses of great men, eve...
And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any mor...
_They shall bring a company against thee_ A company shall come against thee, and beat down thy walls and houses, with stones slung out of battering-engines: see Jeremiah 33:4. The expression alludes,...
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...
THEY; that company mentioned EZEKIEL 16:40. SHALL BURN THINE HOUSES; as harlots and idolaters were to be punished; intimating also the burning Jerusalem, the temple and houses in it, as 2 Kings 25:9 2...
Ezekiel 16:41 burn H8313 (H8804) houses H1004 fire H784 execute H6213 (H8804) judgments H8201 sight H5869 many...
“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...
2 Samuel 21:14; Ezekiel 21:17; Ezekiel 39:29; Ezekiel 5:13; Isaiah