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Verse Ezekiel 16:6. _I SAID - LIVE_] I received the exposed child from
the death that awaited it, while in such a state as rendered it at
once an object of horror, and also of compassion.
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Or, Then I passed by thee ... and I said.
POLLUTED - wallowing, “treading upon oneself.”
IN THY BLOOD - may be connected either with “I said” or with
“Live.” In the latter case, the state of blood an...
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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...
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EZEKIEL 16. JERUSALEM THE UNGRATEFUL, THE UNFAITHFUL. Again Ezekiel
returns to the indictment which justifies the doom. This time it takes
the form of a merciless exposure, in allegorical form, of her...
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WHEN. This word is not in the Hebrew text.
POLLUTED. trodden under foot. Referring to the city, of course.
WHEN THOU... BLOOD, &c. Note the Figure of speech _Epizeneia_ (App-6),
for emphasis. Canaan...
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_And when I passed_ More pathetic in the Heb. order: and I passed by
thee and saw thee.
_polluted_ WELTERING; wallowing or struggling.
when thou wast _in thy blood_ The meaning may be: "I said unto...
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The exposed child rescued and adopted by Jehovah his taking to himself
the family of Israel in the early patriarchal times...
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POLLUTED IN THINE OWN BLOOD— _Wallowing in thy blood._ The last
clause of this verse is not found in the Syriac and LXX. That horrid
custom of the ancients of exposing their infants when they could no...
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II. JERUSALEM: A FAITHLESS WIFE 16:1-43
Perhaps nowhere in the Bible is the faithlessness of God's people and
the faithfulness of the Lord set in more stark contrast than in the
present passage. In fo...
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And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood,
I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto
thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
WHEN I PASSED BY T...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LIVE. — While they were in this condition, God took pity on them. He
delivered them from their oppressors; He raised up a leader for them,
He gave them a law and a Church, with its priesthood and its...
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וָ אֶעֱבֹ֤ר עָלַ֨יִךְ֙ וָֽ אֶרְאֵ֔ךְ
מִתְבֹּוסֶ֖סֶת...
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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...
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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...
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And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thy (c) own blood,
I said to thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yea, I said to
thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live.
(c) Being thus in y...
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_Thy blood, unwashed after being born, ver. 4. (Calmet) --- The Jews
were solicitous to increase their numbers, and exposed none. (Tacitus,
Hist. v.) --- But other nations did, if they thought the chi...
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Here is the grand cause and the only cause of man's recovery. Jesus
passing by, as the divine Samaritan, and beholding our nature in our
blood. His grace, and not man's merit, is the sole source of al...
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I have already explained the time to which the Prophet alludes, when
the seed of Abraham began to be tyrannically oppressed by the
Egyptians. For God here assumes the character of a traveler when he
s...
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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...
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AND WHEN I PASSED BY THEE,.... Alluding to a traveller passing by
where an infant lies, exposed, and looks upon it, and takes it up; or
it may be to Pharaoh's daughter walking by the river side, when...
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And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I
said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto
thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live.
Ver. 6. _And when...
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Eze. 16:6. Doubtless it is something very remarkable and wonderful
that God would here signify by this emphatical repetition; and the
emphasis lies partly in these words, "when thou wast in thy blood,...
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_And when I passed by thee_ While as yet no body took so much care of
thee as to wash thee from thy native filthiness, I took pity on thee;
as a traveller that passes by and sees an infant lie exposed...
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GOD'S EARLY GRACE UPON HIS PEOPLE...
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And when I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thine own blood,
altogether abandoned and wallowing in its own blood, as though
stamping it down, I SAID UNTO THEE WHEN THOU WAST IN THY BLOOD, in th...
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POLLUTED:
Or, trodden under foot...
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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...
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After the manner of man God here speaks, alluding to some traveller or
walker abroad, like Pharaoh's daughter, or the good Samaritan that
lighted on this poor forlorn infant. SAW THEE, in such manner...
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Ezekiel 16:6 passed H5674 (H8799) saw H7200 (H8799) struggling H947
(H8711) blood H1818 said H559 ...
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“And when I passed by you and saw you weltering in your blood, I
said to you, ‘In your blood, live.' Yes I said to you, ‘In your
blood live.' ”
Yahweh found her in her dreadful state, kicking and stru...
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Ezekiel 16:6
I. Preachers are servants of God. We are God's servants on behalf of
souls. The souls of our world are desolate and dead as winter; it is
the will of God that a spring-time should be brou...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have
compassion upon thee._
EZEKIEL’S DESERTED INFANT
I. A survey of the misery of man’s estate. The verse presents to us
an infant exposed to...
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ISRAEL’S INGRATITUDE, PUNISHMENT, AND, IN THE END, FORGIVENESS.
(Chap. 16)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet surveys the entire development of the
nation, past and future. Their original condition was mos...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Acts 7:34; Deuteronomy 9:4; Ephesians 2:4; Ephesians 2:5; Exodus 19:4;...
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A STORY OF REDEMPTION
Ezekiel 16:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We want to bring before you the natural inheritance of all men; that
is, we want to discuss what we were by nature, before grace found us.
1. W...
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When I passed by — God here speaks after the manner of men. Live —
This is such a command as sends forth a power to effect what is
commanded; he gave that life: he spake, and it was done....