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Verse Ezekiel 16:3. _THY BIRTH AND THY NATIVITY_ IS _OF THE LAND OF
CANAAN_] It would dishonour Abraham to say that you sprung from _him_:
ye are rather _Canaanites_ than _Israelites_. The Canaanites...
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BIRTH - See the margin; the word represents “origin” under the
figure of “cutting out stone from a quarry” (compareIsaiah 51:1).
AN AMORITE - the Amorite, a term denoting the whole people. The
Amorite...
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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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THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See note on Ezekiel 2:4.
BIRTH, &c.. excisions and kinships. Compare Isaiah 61:1. Only other
occurrences, Ezekiel 21:30;...
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_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...
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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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THY BIRTH, AND THY NATIVITY, &C.— _Thy root,_ or _origin, and thy
nativity,_ &c. As much as to say, "You dishonour the race of Abraham,
whence you are descended; you deserve much rather the name of a...
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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 say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy
nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy
mother an Hittite.
THY BIRTH AND THY NATIVITY - thy origin...
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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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THY BIRTH, etc.] Though the allegory deals with the history of Israel
as a nation it begins by tracing the origin of Jerusalem. It was a
Canaanite city, inhabited by Jebusites, long before it became t...
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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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THY BIRTH AND THY NATIVITY IS OF THE LAND OF CANAAN. — In the
original the words “births” and “nativities” are in the
plural, already indicating what the whole context makes plain, that
the reference...
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וְ אָמַרְתָּ֞ כֹּה ־אָמַ֨ר אֲדֹנָ֤י
יְהוִה֙ ל
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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 say, Thus saith the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy
nativity [is] of the land (a) of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite,
and thy mother an Hittite.
(a) You boast to be of the seed of Abr...
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_Cethite, or "Hethite." These two were probably the most abandoned of
Chanaan. Daniel (xiii. 56.) give the infamous judges the like
appellation; and Isaias (i. 10.) calls the Jews princes of Sodom.
(C...
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The Prophet is still preaching to Jerusalem, though himself in
Babylon. He is commissioned by the Lord to trace the history of the
Church from her birth; and that she might not vaunt herself over the...
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A question arises here — When God had adopted Abraham two hundred
years previously, why was not that covenant taken into account? for he
here seems not to magnify his own faithfulness and the constanc...
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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 SAY, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD UNTO JERUSALEM,.... To the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, as the Targum:
THY BIRTH AND THY NATIVITY [IS] OF THE LAND OF CANAAN; here the Jewish
ancestors for a time dwelt...
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And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy
nativity [is] of the land of Canaan; thy father [was] an Amorite, and
thy mother an Hittite.
Ver. 3. _Thy birth._] Heb., Thy cutting...
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_Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem_ Unto the whole race of the
Jews, and especially to the natives and inhabitants of that proud
city, who thought it a singular privilege to be born or to live th...
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GOD'S EARLY GRACE UPON HIS PEOPLE...
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and say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem, Thy birth and thy
nativity, namely, in the spiritual sense, IS OF THE LAND OF CANAAN,
for the inhabitants of Jerusalem had followed the idolatrous
Cana...
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BIRTH:
_ Heb._ cutting out, or habitation...
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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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The proud and blinded Jews thought their original more pure than that
of the heathen; this was an old tradition among them, now that the
prophet is to acquaint them with the truth of their polluted or...
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“And say, thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem, Your birth and
your nativity is the land of the Canaanite. The Amorite was your
father, and your mother was a Hittite.”
‘To Jerusalem.' This word conj...
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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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_Thy father was an Amorite and thy mother an Hittite._
HIEROGLYPHICS OF TRUTH
I. Man is essentially religious. Religion in the heart of man is
something that pertains to the land of Canaan. It has no...
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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
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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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1 John 3:10; 1 Kings 21:26; 2 Kings 21:11; Deuteronomy 20:17;...
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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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Jerusalem — The whole race of the Jews. Thy birth — Thy root
whence thou didst spring. Thy father — Abraham, before God called
him, (as his father and kindred) worshipped strange gods beyond the
river...