EZEKIEL—NOTE ON Ezekiel 16:35 Because... therefore (vv. Ezekiel 16:36 and v. Ezekiel 16:43) presents the sins and punishments in two parts (vv. Ezekiel 16:36, Ezekiel 16:43). Adultery, along with other illicit sexual relationships, was one of a number of capital crimes in Israel’s law, so the announcement of execution here is not surprising. Other aspects of the punishments described here do not fit Israelite law so simply. It is unclear how stripping the culprit (v. Ezekiel 16:37) relates to the law about adultery. Perhaps it is a case of “poetic justice” in which Jerusalem returns to the nakedness in which she was found (v. Ezekiel 16:4).

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