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Ezekiel 16:1
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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:
The word of Adonai came to me:
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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
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Sarai did not have any children because she was not able to have children.
Pharaoh was kind to Abram because he thought Abram was Sarai's brother. He gave Abram sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and men and women servants.
Sarai told Abram, "The Lord has not allowed me to have children, so sleep with my slave. Maybe she can have a son, and I will accept him as my own." Abram did what Sarai said.
So after living ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai gave her Egyptian slave to Abram as a second wife.
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Sarai is your owner. Go home to her and obey her."
The angel of the Lord also said, "From you will come many people—too many people to count."
But God said to Abraham, "Don't worry about the boy and the slave woman. Do what Sarah wants. Your descendants will be those who come through Isaac.
His mother found a wife for him in Egypt. They continued to live in the Paran desert.
Isaac's wife could not have children. So Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord heard Isaac's prayer, and he allowed Rebekah to become pregnant.
There was a man named Manoah from the city of Zorah. He was from the tribe of Dan. Manoah had a wife, but she was not able to have any children.
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
