When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, (g) then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former state.
(g) Meaning that it would never come to pass.
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...
_When thy sisters_ Better: AND thy sisters … AND THOU and thy daughters. In this idea of the restoration of Israel's heathen neighbours to their own land after being plucked up out of it Ezekiel as us...
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...
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your for...
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...
וַ אֲחֹותַ֗יִךְ סְדֹ֤ם וּ בְנֹותֶ֨יהָ֙ תָּשֹׁ֣בְןָ...
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...
_Ancient state. That is, to their former state of liberty, and their ancient possessions. In the spiritual sense, to the true liberty and the happy inheritance of the children of God, through faith in...
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...
A clearer explanation of the former doctrine now follows, that the Jews, should thus feel God merciful when his mercy reached Samaria and Sodom; but that never could be done, and hence the Jews were r...
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...
WHEN THY SISTERS, SODOM, AND HER DAUGHTERS, SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER ESTATE,.... The Jews, as Jerom says, are of opinion, that in the days of their vainly expected Messiah Sodom will be restored t...
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your form...
_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:...
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, the position which they held before they yielded to t...
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...
This verse is explained in EZEKIEL 16:53, and needs not a repeated explication; it threatens a perpetual continuance of their low, abject, and miserable state in their outward concerns....
Ezekiel 16:55 sisters H269 Sodom H5467 daughters H1323 return H7725 (H8799) state H6927 Samaria H8111 daughters H1323
“And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate, and you and your daughters will return to your former...
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 16:53 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...
Isaiah 65:5; Luke 15:28; Luke 18:11; Zephaniah 3:11...