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Contemporary English Version

Ezekiel 16:1

The Lord said:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Prophecy;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ingratitude to God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ashtoreth, Plural Ash'taroth;   Fornication;   Harlot;   Solomon's Song;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Fornication;   Prostitution;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Song of Songs;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Kedar;   Naked;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Solomon the song of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me again:
Hebrew Names Version
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
King James Version
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
English Standard Version
Again the word of the Lord came to me:
New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
Amplified Bible
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
World English Bible
Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Againe, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:
Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said,
George Lamsa Translation
AGAIN the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me again.
Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Agayne, the worde of LORDE spake vnto me, sayenge:
American Standard Version
Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
King James Version (1611)
Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Agayne the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
English Revised Version
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,
Update Bible Version
Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New English Translation
The word of the Lord came to me:
New King James Version
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Living Translation
Then another message came to me from the Lord :
New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me, saying,
New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Revised Standard Version
Again the word of the LORD came to me:
Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
THE MESSAGE
God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her outrageous violations. Say this: ‘The Message of God , the Master, to Jerusalem: You were born and bred among Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord said: 2 Ezekiel, son of man, remind the people of Jerusalem of their disgusting sins 3 and tell them that I, the Lord God, am saying: Jerusalem, you were born in the country where Canaanites lived. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite. 4 When you were born, no one cut you loose from your mother or washed your body. No one rubbed your skin with salt and olive oil, and wrapped you in warm blankets. 5 Not one person loved you enough to do any of these things, and no one even felt sorry for you. You were despised, thrown into a field, and forgotten.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 14:34 - but Isaiah 1:21 - become Jeremiah 2:23 - see Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Ezekiel 2:3 - a rebellious nation Ezekiel 22:2 - her abominations Hosea 1:2 - for Hosea 4:12 - gone Amos 2:4 - because Zechariah 5:7 - is

Cross-References

Genesis 12:16
The king was good to Abram because of Sarai, and Abram was given sheep, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.
Genesis 16:2
and Sarai said to Abram, "The Lord has not given me any children. Sleep with my slave, and if she has a child, it will be mine." Abram agreed,
Genesis 16:3
and Sarai gave him Hagar to be his wife. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years.
Genesis 16:9
The angel said, "Go back to Sarai and be her slave.
Genesis 16:10
I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael, because I have heard your cry for help. And later I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all.
Genesis 21:12
But God said, "Abraham, don't worry about your slave woman and the boy. Just do what Sarah tells you. Isaac will inherit your family name,
Genesis 25:21
Rebekah still had no children. So Isaac asked the Lord to let her have a child, and the Lord answered his prayer.
Judges 13:2
Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was not able to have children,
Luke 1:7
But they did not have children. Elizabeth could not have any, and both Zechariah and Elizabeth were already old.
Luke 1:36
Your relative Elizabeth is also going to have a son, even though she is old. No one thought she could ever have a baby, but in three months she will have a son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. The word of prophecy from the Lord, as the Targum; the following representation was made to him under a spirit of prophecy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 reason of her origin and early history. The original abode of the progenitors of the race was the land of Canaan, defiled with idolatry and moral corruption. Israel itself was like a child born in a polluted land, abandoned from its birth, left by its parents in the most utter neglect to the chance regard of any passer-by. Such was the state of the people in Egypt Ezekiel 16:3-5. On such a child the Lord looked with pity, tended, and adopted it. Under His care it grew up to be comely and beautiful, and the Lord joined it to Himself in that close union, which is figured by the bonds of wedlock. The covenants made under Moses and Joshua represent this alliance Ezekiel 16:6-8. In the reigns of David and Solomon, Israel shone with all the glory of temporal prosperity Ezekiel 16:9-14. The remainder of the history of the people when divided is, in the prophet’s eye, a succession of defection and degradation marked by the erection of high places Ezekiel 16:16-20; by unholy alliances with foreign nations Ezekiel 16:26-33. Such sins were soon to meet their due punishment. As an unfaithful wife was brought before the people, convicted, and stoned, so should the Lord make His people a gazing-stock to all the nations round about, deprive them of all their possessions and of their city, and cast them forth as exiles to be spoiled and destroyed in a foreign land Ezekiel 16:35-43.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 great

tenderness, and afterwards marry her, 1-14.

She is then upbraided with her monstrous ingratitude in

departing from the worship of God, and polluting herself with

the idolatries of the nations around her, under the figure of

a woman that proves false to a tender and indulgent husband,

15-52.

But, notwithstanding these her heinous provocations, God

promises, after she should suffer due correction, to restore

her again to his favour, 53-63.

The mode of describing apostasy from the true religion to the

worship of idols under the emblem of adultery, (a figure very

frequent in the sacred canon,) is pursued unth great force, and

at considerable length, both in this and the twenty-third

chapter; and is excellently calculated to excite in the Church

of God the highest detestation of all false worship.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVI


 
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