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Rather, didst build - didst make - wast not - scornest. In the
marginal rendering, “thy daughters” must mean “thy smaller
cities or villages.”...
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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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HIRE. See note on "reward", Ezekiel 16:34....
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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...
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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...
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Recapitulation of the acts done in her unbridled licentiousness, with
the addition of a trait shewing that her dissoluteness was without
parallel other harlots take hire, she gives it.
_in that_thou _...
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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...
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In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way,
and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an
harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
IN THAT THOU BUILDEST 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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EMINENT PLACE. — See note on Ezekiel 16:24.
IN THAT THOU SCORNEST HIM. — It was characteristic of both the
kingdoms of Israel after the division, that the interference of
foreign nations in their affa...
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בִּ בְנֹותַ֤יִךְ גַּבֵּךְ֙ בְּ רֹ֣אשׁ
כָּל ־ד
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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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In that thou buildest thy eminent place in the head of every way, and
makest thy high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot,
(q) in that thou scornest hire;
(q) Meaning that some harl...
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_Price, before she will yield, (Haydock) or who follow such practices
for a livelihood. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "in that thou scornest hire."
(Protestants) Septuagint, "gathering rewards." The difference...
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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...
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Here the Prophet again reproves the superstitions to which the Jews
had devoted themselves: but yet he speaks figuratively, because by
high places he does not simply mean altars, but tents by which th...
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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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_In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way,
and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an
harlot, in that thou scornest hire;_
Ver. 31. _And hast not b...
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_How weak is thy heart_ Not only unstable as to good resolutions, but
even restless and unsettled in evil practices, still hankering after
some new kind of idolatry, and resolved to indulge a wanderin...
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in that thou buildest thine eminent place, the vault or chamber of
immorality, IN THE HEAD OF EVERY WAY AND MAKEST THINE HIGH PLACE IN
EVERY STREET, Cf v. 25; AND HAST NOT BEEN AS AN HARLOT IN THAT TH...
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The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People...
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THAT THOU BUILDEST:
Or, in thy daughters is thine etc....
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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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THOU BUILDEST; see EZEKIEL 16:24; whereas the paramours of other lewd
women build for them, as it is reported of Solomon, 1 KINGS 11:7,8.
Here, on the contrary, this unfaithful nation forsake their Go...
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Ezekiel 16:31 erected H1129 (H8800) shrine H1354 head H7218 road H1870
built H6213 (H8804) place H7413 street...
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“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “seeing you do
all these things, the work of an imperious, whorish woman, in that you
build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your l...
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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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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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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 16:30 This summary of vv. Ezekiel 16:15
accuses Jerusalem of being uniquely promiscuous. It draws together the
two preceding metaphors. The marriage metaphor relates to i
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ISRAEL’S APOSTACY FROM GOD (Ezekiel 16:15)
EXEGETICAL NOTES. Its origin and nature (Ezekiel 16:15); its magnitude
and extent (Ezekiel 16:23)....
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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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2 Corinthians 11:2; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Ezekiel 16:8; Ezekiel 23:37;...
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Not as an harlot — Common harlots make gain of their looseness, and
live by that gain; thou dost worse, thou lavishest out thy credit,
wealth, and all, to maintain thine adulterers....