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CHAPTER XVI
_In this chapter the mercy of God to Jerusalem, (or the Jewish_
_Church and nation,) is set forth by the emblem of a person that_
_should take up an exposed infant, bring her up with gr...
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Idolatry is frequently represented by the prophets under the figure of
a wife’s unfaithfulness to her husband. This image is here so
portrayed, as to exhibit the aggravation of Israel’s guilt by reaso...
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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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EZEKIEL 16. JERUSALEM THE UNGRATEFUL, THE UNFAITHFUL. Again Ezekiel
returns to the indictment which justifies the doom. This time it takes
the form of a merciless exposure, in allegorical form, of her...
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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4....
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The exposed child rescued and adopted by Jehovah his taking to himself
the family of Israel in the early patriarchal times...
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II. JERUSALEM: A FAITHLESS WIFE 16:1-43
Perhaps nowhere in the Bible is the faithlessness of God's people and
the faithfulness of the Lord set in more stark contrast than in the
present passage. In fo...
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
(1) Taken up by God's gratuitous favour from infancy (Ezekiel 16:1);
(2) and, when grown up, joined to Him in spiritual marriage (Ezekiel
16:8);
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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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וַ יְהִ֥י דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵ
אמֹֽר
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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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CONTENTS
Under the similitude of a new-born female infant cast out and left to
perish, this chapter describes the hopeless state of human nature by
the fall. The riches of grace in the salvation of s...
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The Prophet is still preaching to Jerusalem, though himself in
Babylon. He is commissioned by the Lord to trace the history of the
Church from her birth; and that she might not vaunt herself over the...
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This chapter contains very severe reproaches against the people of
Judea who were left at Jerusalem. For although Ezekiel had been a
leader to the Israelites and the Jewish exiles, yet God wished his...
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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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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ver. 1. _Again the word of the Lord came unto me._] For the better
setting on of what had been said in the foregoing chapter, for cutting
the combs of...
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GOD'S EARLY GRACE UPON HIS PEOPLE...
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Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,...
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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 CHAPTER 16 Under the similitude of a helpless exposed infant
is represented the original state of Jerusalem, EZEKIEL 16:1; whom God
is described to have bred up, married, and treated with kind...
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Ezekiel 16:1 word H1697 LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800)...
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‘Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, cause
Jerusalem to know her abominations.” '
God will now recount Israel's great sin and apostasy, to show her the
greatness of the sin that...
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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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_Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations._
VILE INGRATITUDE
I. Let us consider our iniquities--I mean those committed since
conversion, those committed yesterday, and the day before, an...
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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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ISRAEL’S INGRATITUDE, PUNISHMENT, AND, IN THE END, FORGIVENESS.
(Chap. 16)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet surveys the entire development of the
nation, past and future. Their original condition was mos...
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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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Ezekiel 16:1...
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A STORY OF REDEMPTION
Ezekiel 16:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We want to bring before you the natural inheritance of all men; that
is, we want to discuss what we were by nature, before grace found us.
1. W...