Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Ezekiel 16:42
My fury... to rest. — Not in pity but in satiety, as having accomplished the utter desolation of Israel.
My fury... to rest. — Not in pity but in satiety, as having accomplished the utter desolation of Israel.
Verse Ezekiel 16:42. _I WILL BE QUIET AND WILL BE NO MORE ANGRY._] I will completely abandon thee; have nothing more to do with thee; think no more of thee. When God in judgment ceases to reprehend, t...
Judah is now represented as undergoing the punishment adjudged to an adulteress and murderess. Only in her utter destruction shall the wrath of the Lord, the jealous God, cease. Ezekiel 16:36 FILTHIN...
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...
Punishment of the adulterous wife, and child-murderer This punishment is described in somewhat mixed figures: first, Ezekiel 16:36, in a figure which tends to pass into a literal account of the destr...
_make my fury … to rest_ i.e. satisfy and appease it. Cf. ch. Ezekiel 5:13....
SO WILL I MAKE MY FURY TOWARD THEE TO REST— Though it be more grateful to God's excellent nature to awaken men with his bounty than with his chastisement, yet he can punish with as little noise as he...
D. The Punishment of the Harlot 16:35-43 TRANSLATION (35) Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD! (36) Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness revea...
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. SO WILL I MAKE MY FURY TOWARD THEE TO REST - when my justice has...
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...
וַ הֲנִחֹתִ֤י חֲמָתִי֙ בָּ֔ךְ וְ סָ֥רָה קִנְא
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...
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my (t) jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. (t) I will utterly destroy you and so my jealousy will cease....
_No more. I will entirely repudiate thee, so as to observe thy conduct no longer, (Calmet) with the eyes of an husband. (Haydock) --- This is the most terrible effect of God's wrath, (Calmet) when the...
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...
Although God seems here to promise some mitigation of his wrath, there is no doubt that he expresses what we formerly saw, namely, that such should be the destruction of the nation that there would be...
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...
SO WILL I MAKE MY FURY TOWARDS THEE TO REST,.... When the Jews should cease from their idolatries, and no more worship the gods of the nations, then the fury of the Lord, and the effects of it, should...
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. Ver. 42. _So I will make my fury toward thee to rest._] Sept., I wi...
_They shall bring a company against thee_ A company shall come against thee, and beat down thy walls and houses, with stones slung out of battering-engines: see Jeremiah 33:4. The expression alludes,...
THE PUNISHMENT OF THE LORD ANNOUNCED...
So will I make My fury toward thee to rest, being satisfied with the punishment meted out, AND MY JEALOUSY, the jealous rage of a wronged husband, SHALL DEPART FROM THEE, AND I WILL BE QUIET AND WILL...
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...
It may admit a doubt, whether this be spoken in way of promise and kindness, or of menace and wrath. This latter seems intended, as if God said, The jealousy whereto you have provoked me will never ce...
Ezekiel 16:42 rest H5117 (H8689) fury H2534 jealousy H7068 depart H5493 (H8804) quiet H8252 (H8804) angry...
“So will I cause my fury on you to cease, and my jealousy will depart from you, and I will be quiet, and angry no more.” Yet in all this God's purpose is finally merciful. He wants to rid His people o...
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—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 16:35 BECAUSE... THEREFORE (vv. Ezekiel 16:36 and v....
ISRAEL’S PUNISHMENT WILL CORRESPOND WITH HER SINS. (Ezekiel 16:35) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 16:35. “BECAUSE THY FILTHINESS WAS POURED OUT.” Heb. “Because thy brass has been lavished.” Brass is used...
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 7:51; Amos 2:13; Deuteronomy 32:21; Ephesians 4:30; Ezekiel 11:21
My jealousy — The jealousy whereto you have provoked me, will never cease, 'till these judgments have utterly destroyed you, as the anger of an abused husband ceases in the publick punishment of the a...