Thy birth … land of Canaan of the Canaanite. "Birth" is origin(ch. Ezekiel 21:30; Ezekiel 29:14), the figure being taken from a mine or a quarry, cf. Isaiah 51:1, "Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged." When Jerusalem's origin is said to be from the land of the Canaanite several references seem combined, e.g. the fact that Jerusalem was a Canaanite city; that Israel first became a family in Canaan (Ezekiel 16:4); and that having originated there its moral character corresponded to its Canaanite origin and had cleaved to it all through its history.

an Amorite the Amorite. The Amorites and Hittites are named as the two chief Canaanitish peoples, the whole population being sometimes called the Amorites (Genesis 15:16; Amos 2:9), and at other times the Hittites (Joshua 1:4). Jerusalem has the one for father, and the other for mother (Ezekiel 16:45).

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