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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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BUT AS. [Thou halt been]....
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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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Seems to break the connexion and has been regarded as a gloss. The
words "instead of her husband" should be "under her husband," though
her husband's (cf. Ezekiel 23:5, when she was mine; Numbers 5:19...
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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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But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers
instead of her husband!
WHICH TAKETH STRANGERS INSTEAD OF HER HUSBAND - referring to Numbers
5:19-4; Numbers 5:29. Fairbairn translate...
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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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הָ אִשָּׁ֖ה הַ מְּנָאָ֑פֶת תַּ֣חַת
אִישָׁ֔הּ...
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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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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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Some translate it an adulteress under her husband’s roof, and
תחת, _thecheth_, signifies “instead of:” and they explain it
thus, that adulteresses do not divorce themselves from their husbands
when 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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[BUT AS] A WIFE THAT COMMITTETH ADULTERY,.... Who has a husband, and
is provided for with all the necessaries of life, with food and
clothing; and so has no need to prostitute herself for a livelihood...
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Ezekiel 16:32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh
strangers instead of her husband!
Ver. 32. _Which taketh strangers instead of her husband._] This is a
foul mistake; wedlock sho...
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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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The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People...
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but as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead
of her husband, for so Israel had acted in forsaking Jehovah, the God
of the covenant....
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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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Ezekiel 16:32 adulterous H5003 (H8764) wife H802 takes H3947 (H8799)
strangers H2114 (H8801) husband H376...
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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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Deuteronomy 23:17; Deuteronomy 23:18; Genesis 38:16; Hosea 2:12;...