the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
Complete Jewish Bible
Ezekiel 16:1
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- AmericanParallel Translations
The word of the Lord came to me again:
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Again the word of the Lord came to me:
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Againe, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The Lord said:
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said,
AGAIN the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
The Lord spoke to me again.
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
Agayne, the worde of LORDE spake vnto me, sayenge:
Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
Agayne the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,
Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The word of the Lord came to me:
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Then another message came to me from the Lord :
The Word of the Lord came to me, saying,
The word of the Lord came to me:
And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Again the word of the LORD came to me:
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
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
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
Sarai was barren — she had no child.
He treated Avram well for her sake, giving him sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.
so Sarai said to Avram, "Here now, Adonai has kept me from having children; so go in and sleep with my slave-girl. Maybe I'll be able to have children through her." Avram listened to what Sarai said.
It was after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kena‘an that Sarai Avram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife.
The angel of Adonai said to her, "Go back to your mistress, and submit to her authority."
The angel of Adonai said to her, "I will greatly increase your descendants; there will be so many that it will be impossible to count them."
But God said to Avraham, "Don't be distressed because of the boy and your slave-girl. Listen to everything Sarah says to you, because it is your descendants through Yitz'chak who will be counted.
He lived in the Pa'ran Desert, and his mother chose a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Yitz'chak prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. Adonai heeded his prayer, and Rivkah became pregnant.
There was a man from Tzor‘ah from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoach; his wife was barren, childless.
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
