Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 16:47
Not walked after their ways — For they, all things considered, were less sinners than thou. Nor done — Their doings were abominable, but thine have been worse.
Not walked after their ways — For they, all things considered, were less sinners than thou. Nor done — Their doings were abominable, but thine have been worse.
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...
AS IF THAT WERE... THING. The _Ellipsis_ is wrongly supplied. See further note A VERY LITTLE. a very little time, or quickly. See note on "almost" (Proverbs 5:14)....
The depravity of Jerusalem exceeded that of either of her sisters: Sodom (Ezekiel 16:48), Samaria (Ezekiel 16:51)....
_as_if that were _a very little_thing] Or temporally: _but a little while, and then_, i.e. _speedily thou wast corrupted;_though there seems no reference to any actual period of righteousness, such as...
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...
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. YET HAST THOU NOT ... NOR...
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...
AS IF THAT WERE A VERY LITTLE THING. — Better, _thou hast not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations a little only, but hast done more corruptly than they, &c._ This excess of wick...
וְ לֹ֤א בְ דַרְכֵיהֶן֙ הָלַ֔כְתְּ וּ בְ
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...
Yet hast thou (a) not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. (a) But done far wo...
_Ways, but hast done even worse. --- Almost. He seems to diminish their crimes, (Calmet) as if it could hardly be believed that Jerusalem should be more abandoned. Hebrew and Septuagint, "that would b...
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...
Now the Prophet, not content with the simile which he had used, says that the Jews were far worse than either their mothers or sisters. Yet he is not inconsistent, for God wished by degrees to drag th...
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...
YET HAST THOU NOT WALKED AFTER THEIR WAYS,.... But in ways more evil; were not content to keep pace with them, and do as they did; but outwent them, outstripped them in wickedness: NOR DONE AFTER THE...
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. Ver. 47. _Yet hast thou...
_Thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters_ That is, her lesser towns. “Samaria is called the _elder_, or _greater_ sister, because it was a much larger city and kingdom, greater for power,...
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways nor done after their abominations, not even being satisfied with the deeds of wickedness for which these cities were known; BUT, as if that were a very little...
THE PUNISHMENT OF THE LORD ANNOUNCED...
THAT WERE A VERY LITTLE THING: Or, that was lothed as a small thing...
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...
YET, Heb. _And_. WALKED; lived and behaved thyself as they did, for they, all things considered, were less sinners than thou. NOR DONE, & c.; the same in other words; their doings were abominable, but...
Ezekiel 16:47 walk H1980 (H8804) ways H1870 act H6213 (H8804) abominations H8441 too H6985 little H4592...
“Yet you have not walked in their ways nor done after their abominations, but, it is a very little thing, (or ‘in a very little time') you were more corrupt than them in all your ways.” The statement...
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 16:43) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 16:43. “HAST FRETTED ME IN ALL THESE THINGS.” Instead of regarding their calamaties as the just punishment of their sin, they raged against the Lord. The jud...
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...
Acts 7:52; Luke 10:12; Mark 6:11; Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:24...
Did Israel imitate the heathen or not? PROBLEM: In Ezekiel 5:7, the Israelites were condemned because they had “multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around” them. Yet, here in Ez...