Justification; law, &c. Hebrew, "thy right," or allowance, Exodus xxi. 10. --- Hate thee. To be abandoned to the will of a rival, is most dreadful for a woman. The Jews were subjected to the nations which they had despised, as they are still to Christians. Even other less favoured idolaters were astonished (Calmet) at their apostacy. (Haydock)
Verse Ezekiel 16:27. _HAVE DIMINISHED THINE ORDINARY_] חקך _chukkech_ means here the household provision made for a wife-food, clothing, and money....
HAVE DIMINISHED THINE ORDINARY FOOD - As a husband lessens the things which minister to the luxury of an unfaithful wife, so did the Lord cut Israel short in consequence of her unfaithfulness. DAUGHTE...
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...
I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HAND, &c. Reference to Petit. (Exodus 7:19, &c.) App-92. OVER. against. ORDINARY FOOD. allowance. Referring to food as measured out to captives or slaves. WILL. desire. Hebr...
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...
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...
_I have stretched_ I STRETCHED … and DIMINISHED … them that HATED … WERE ASHAMED. The reference appears to be to the distant times of the Philistine supremacy in the last days of the Judges. _thine or...
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...
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are...
16:27 portion; (d-14) Or 'allotted food,' _ choq_ ; see Exodus 12:24 ....
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...
Israel suffered from the Philistines both in the days of the Judges and the early kings, and in later times (2 Chronicles 28:18)....
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...
DIMINISHED THINE ORDINARY FOOD. — This cutting short of the power and prosperity of Israel was a discipline of correction designed to bring her to a consciousness of her sin. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE PHIL...
וְ הִנֵּ֨ה נָטִ֤יתִי יָדִי֙ עָלַ֔יִךְ וָ אֶגְ
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...
Here God reproves the hardness of the Jews because admonition did not render them wise. The common proverb aptly says, “fools grow wise only by the rod;” and when their obstinacy is such that the rod...
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...
BEHOLD, THEREFORE I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HAND OVER THEE,.... His chastising and correcting hand, to show his resentment at their sins, and bring them to a sense of them, and repentance for them: AND...
_Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary [food], and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which a...
_Behold, therefore_ Open thine eyes, thou secure and foolish adulteress, see what has been done against thee, and consider it is for thy lewdness. _I have stretched out my hand over thee_ I have chast...
The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People...
Behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over thee, in a gesture threatening quick punishment, AND HAVE DIMINISHED THINE ORDINARY FOOD, the allowance which she, as a faithful wife, had originall...
DAUGHTERS: Or, cities...
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...
BEHOLD; open thine eyes, thou secure and foolish adulteress, see what hath been done against thee, and consider it is for thy lewdness. I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY HAND; I have chastised and punished alre...
Ezekiel 16:27 out H5186 (H8804) hand H3027 diminished H1639 (H8799) allotment H2706 gave H5414 (H8799) will...
“Behold therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your allotted portion, and delivered you into the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ash...
Ezekiel 16:27 I. The last clause of the text may be considered as supposing that a man becomes the slave of another, and that this other is one who entertains towards him a feeling of hatred. Through...
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...
_I have stretched out My hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee._ THE TYRANNY OF SATAN To be “delivered unto the will of them...
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...
2 Chronicles 28:23; 2 Kings 16:10; 2 Kings 16:7; 2 Kings 21:11;...