Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Ezekiel 16:54
Art a comfort unto them. — Compare what was said of justifying them in Ezekiel 16:51. The greater sin of Judah became a comfort by throwing their own evil into the shade.
Art a comfort unto them. — Compare what was said of justifying them in Ezekiel 16:51. The greater sin of Judah became a comfort by throwing their own evil into the shade.
THOU ART A COMFORT UNTO THEM - The degradation of Judah would be a kind of consolation to others. Compare Isaiah 14....
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...
Read: "that thou mayest bear thy shame, and be ashamed because of all that thou hast done in comforting them." Jerusalem "comforted" Samaria and Sodom in surpassing them in wickedness, and causing the...
III. JUDAH: THE FALLEN SISTER 16:44-63 TRANSLATION (44) Behold every one who employs proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As the mother, so the daughter. (45) You are the daughter of...
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. THAT THOU MAYEST BEAR THINE OWN SHAME - by being put on a level wi...
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...
לְמַ֨עַן֙ תִּשְׂאִ֣י כְלִמָּתֵ֔ךְ וִ נִכְלַ֕מְתְּ מִ...
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...
That thou mayest bear thy own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a (f) comfort to them. (f) In that you have shown yourself worse than they and yet thought t...
_Them. It affords some consolation to have partners in misery. (Calmet)_...
What is here said comes in as the suitable conclusion of such daring rebellion as Israel had, in the preceding paragraph, been accused of. If Israel hath thus played the harlot, what shall arise, or w...
Hence we gather from the last verse, that God gave the Jews no hope of safety, but rather confirms their utter destruction, so that no future safety was to be hoped for. For he says_, that you may bea...
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 MAYEST BEAR THINE OWN SHAME,.... So long as the captivity remains; even until Sodom and Samaria, the Gentiles, and the ten tribes, are called and converted: AND MAYEST BE CONFOUNDED IN ALL...
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. Ver. 54. _In that thou art a comfort unto them._] Ezekiel 14:22. _Sol...
_When I shall bring again the captivity of Sodom and her daughters_, &c. “Sodom and her daughters may mean cities placed in the district where Sodom stood. Sodom was not where the lake is, Genesis 19:...
that thou mayest bear thine own shame, suffer the well-deserved punishment, AND MAYEST BE CONFOUNDED IN ALL THAT THOU HAST DONE, IN THAT THOU ART A COMFORT UNTO THEM, her own eventual restoration serv...
MERCY PROMISED FOR THE LATTER END...
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...
THOU MAYEST; _ thou shalt_, so the Hebrew, as well as _mayest_. SHAME; punishment for offences is ever reproachful, and some punishments are more so than others. Such shall the Jews punishments be. CO...
Ezekiel 16:54 bear H5375 (H8799) shame H3639 disgraced H3637 (H8738) did H6213 (H8804) comforted H5162 ...
THE COMING RESTORATION WILL BRING SHAME ON JERUSALEM. Suddenly in the gloom there comes again the promise of future restoration. With all the blackness of the future before them final restoration is...
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...
_That thou mayest. .. be confounded in all that thou hast done._ THE HUMILIATION OF SUCCESS The argument of this passage is very original. The prophet reaches past all limitations to the universal gr...
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 16:53 Here judgment is assumed and a future restoration is envisioned. Both here and in the conclusion (vv. Ezekiel 16:59), the people feel shame at their previous acts.
(Ezekiel 16:53.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 16:53. “WHEN I SHALL BRING AGAIN THEIR CAPTIVITY, THE CAPTIVITY OF SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS, AND THE CAPTIVITY OF SAMARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS, THEN WILL I BRIN...
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 16:53; Ezekiel 36:11; Malachi 3:4...
A comfort — Encouraging sinners like those of Sodom and Samaria....