Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Ezekiel 16:24
eminent places. brothel house. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for the idol's temple.
eminent places. brothel house. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for the idol's temple.
Verse Ezekiel 16:24. _THOU HAST ALSO BUILT UNTO THEE AN EMINENT PLACE_] גב _gab_, a _stew_ or _brothel_; Vulg. _lupanar_; Septuag. οικημα πορνικον. So my old MS. Bible, _a bordel house_. "Thou hast b...
THAT THOU ... - Render it: after that thou didst build “unto thee an eminent place,” and didst make “thee an high place in every street” - after that thou didst build “thy high place at the head of ev...
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...
Her infidelities with strangers from abroad, i.e. her alliances with idolatrous nations and adoption of their religious rites: Egypt (Ezekiel 16:23), Assyria (Ezekiel 16:28), and Chaldea (Ezekiel 16:2...
_an eminent place_ The term is used of the "back," the "boss" of a buckler, and the like, and means something elevated to some extent and probably arched; R.V. marg. _vaulted chamber_. It appears to b...
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...
AN EMINENT PLACE— _A brothel-house._ Houbigant. See also Ezekiel 16:31; Ezekiel 16:39. Instead of, _Hast made thy beauty to be abhorred,_ Ezekiel 16:25 he reads, _And, dishonouring thy beauty, thou ha...
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...
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. THOU HAST ALSO BUILT UNTO THEE AN EMINENT PLACE - rather, 'a fornication-chamber,' often conn...
16:24 debauchery, (b-11) Or 'arched place;' and so vers. 31,39....
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...
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...
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...
BUILT UNTO THEE AN EMINENT PLACE. — The word means literally, _arches._ Such arched rooms were used in connection with the worship of idols for licentious purposes, and hence the translation of the ma...
וַ תִּבְנִי ־לָ֖ךְ גֶּ֑ב וַ תַּעֲשִׂי ־לָ֥ךְ
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...
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...
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...
[THAT] THOU HAST ALSO BUILT UNTO THEE AN EMINENT PLACE,.... Or a "brothel" k; and so the Septuagint version, "a whoring house"; not content to commit idolatry privately, they built a public place for...
Ezekiel 16:24 [That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Ver. 24. _That thou hast also built unto thee._] How stintless is sin, and how...
_Thou hast also built thee an eminent place in every street _ Manasseh filled Jerusalem with idols, 2Ch 33:4-5; 2 Chronicles 33:15; the altars of many of which were placed upon high or eminent places....
The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People...
that thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, a vault or vaulted chamber, such as were used for immoral purposes in connection with idolatrous customs, AND HAST MADE THEE AN HIGH PLACE IN EVER...
EMINENT PLACE: Or, brothel house...
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...
HAST ALSO BUILT, with great charge and pains, as those do. who build, hereby declaring thy purposes of continuing thy lewdness. UNTO THEE; for thyself, grown so prodigiously public, and followed with...
Ezekiel 16:24 built H1129 (H8799) shrine H1354 made H6213 (H8799) place H7413 street H7339 thou hast -...
“And so it is after all your wickedness - woe, woe to you, says the Lord Yahweh - that you have built yourself an eminent place (or vaulted chamber) and have made yourself a lofty place on every stree...
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 16:23 Jerusalem’s “whorings” included multiple partners. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
Ezekiel 16:31; Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:32; Ezekiel 23:9; Genesi
In every street — Idol temples were in every street; both in Jerusalem and her cities....