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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
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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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_thy high place_ See Ezekiel 16:24.
_made … to be abhorred_ This sense is doubtful; the word means to
abominate, hence dishonour or disregard, or as we might say
"prostitute thy beauty....
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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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Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast
made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one
that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. THOU HAST BUILT 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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אֶל ־כָּל ־רֹ֣אשׁ דֶּ֗רֶךְ בָּנִית֙
רָֽמָתֵ֔ךְ...
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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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_Sign; altars of idols. (Haydock) --- She makes no secret of her
apostacy. The Greeks and Romans marked the houses of prostitutes, that
honest men might avoid them. "The deemed the profession of such...
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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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He now adds, _that he made their beauty to be abhorred. _I have no
doubt that the Prophet alludes to the filthiness of abandoned women;
and even the Latins called them “worn out,” whose foulness arise...
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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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THOU HAST BUILT THY HIGH PLACE AT EVERY HEAD OF THE WAY,.... Where two
or more ways, or two or more streets, met; and so was most
conspicuous, and was seen from different parts; which shows the same
a...
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_Thou hast also built thee an eminent place in every street _ Manasseh
filled Jerusalem with idols, 2Ch 33:4-5; 2 Chronicles 33:15; the
altars of many of which were placed upon high or eminent places....
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Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, at every
crossroads, AND HAST MADE THY BEAUTY TO BE ABHORRED, familiarity and a
too-willing yielding breeding contempt also in this instance, A...
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The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People...
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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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Not content with what was done in the city, she built her idol temples
and shows in the country, in places where many ways or roads met,
wheresoever it was likely passengers would come. HAST MADE THY...
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Ezekiel 16:25 built H1129 (H8804) places H7413 head H7218 road H1870
beauty H3308 abhorred H8581 (H8762) offered
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“And so it is after all your wickedness - woe, woe to you, says the
Lord Yahweh - that you have built yourself an eminent place (or
vaulted chamber) and have made yourself a lofty place on every stree...
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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 16:23 Jerusalem’s “whorings” included
multiple partners.
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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 29:16; Deuteronomy 29:17; Exodus 32:4; Ezekiel 20:7;...
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At every head of the way — Not content with what was done in the
city, she built her idol temples in the country, wherever it was
likely passengers would come....