the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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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,
Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said,
AGAIN the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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 not able to have children.
Because of her the king treated Abram well and gave him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.
and so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me." Abram agreed with what Sarai said.
So she gave Hagar to him to be his concubine. (This happened after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years.)
He said, "Go back to her and be her slave."
Then he said, "I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them.
But God said to Abraham, "Don't be worried about the boy and your slave Hagar. Do whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I have promised.
His mother got an Egyptian wife for him.
Because Rebecca had no children, Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord answered his prayer, and Rebecca became pregnant.
At that time there was a man named Manoah from the town of Zorah. He was a member of the tribe of Dan. His wife had never been able to have 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
