Mine oil and mine incense - The oil was the produce of the land, the incense received in exchange for such produce. Both were the gifts of Yahweh and belonged to Him; yet the oil Exodus 25:6; Exodus 29:40 and the incense Exodus 30:34, prepared for the service of God, were used in idol-worship. In nature worship the worshippers were especially lavish in vegetable products like incense.
Verse Ezekiel 16:18. _HAST SET MINE OIL AND MINE INCENSE BEFORE THEM._] It appears that they had made use of the holy vestments, and the different kinds of offerings which belonged to the Lord, to hon...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense...
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...
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...
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...
וַ תִּקְחִ֛י אֶת ־בִּגְדֵ֥י רִקְמָתֵ֖ךְ וַ תּ
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...
_Oil, or perfume. which no man was allowed to use, Exodus xxx. 9, 38._...
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...
Here God complains that the Jews turned their abundance of all things to perverse worship: for, as a husband who indulges his wife freely supplies all her wants, so a woman who is immodest was what sh...
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 TOOKEST THY BROIDERED GARMENTS, AND COVEREDST THEM,.... The images of men, the idols they worshipped; see Jeremiah 10:4; so the Papists at this day cover their idols, the images of the Virgin Mary...
And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. Ver. 18. _And tookest thy broidered, &c._] See Ezekiel 16:16 ....
_But thou didst trust in thine own beauty_ Houbigant translates this, “But thou, trusting in thy beauty, didst play the harlot, degenerating from thy renown:” as if he had said, Thou didst abuse those...
And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them, the idols often being decked with the richest draperies; AND THOU HAST SET MINE OIL AND MINE INCENSE, which should have been used in his worship...
The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People...
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 BROIDERED GARMENTS, mentioned EZEKIEL 16:10, given by him who espoused this woman. Coveredst them; didst clothe the adulterers with whom thou didst commit lewdness, or didst clothe the images whic...
Ezekiel 16:18 took H3947 (H8799) embroidered H7553 garments H899 covered H3680 (H8762) set H5414 (H8804) oil...
“And you took your bordered clothes and covered them (the idols), and set my oil and my incense before them.” The catalogue of dastardly behaviour continues. They put the fine clothes that Yahweh had...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:14; Ezekiel 16:13; Genesis 8:21; Hosea 2:8...
Coveredst — Didst clothe the images thou hadst made. Set mine oil — In lamps to burn before them....