the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Ezekiel 16:2
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“Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices.
Son of man, cause Yerushalayim to know her abominations;
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
"Human, tell Jerusalem about her hateful actions.
"Son of man, make Jerusalem understand [the heinous and vile nature of] her repulsive (idolatrous) acts
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
Sonne of man, cause Ierusalem to knowe her abominations,
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations
"Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominations
Ezekiel, son of man, remind the people of Jerusalem of their disgusting sins
"Human being, make Yerushalayim realize how disgusting her practices are.
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
"Son of man, tell the people of Jerusalem about the terrible things they have done.
Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem its detestable things,
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Thou sonne of man, shewe the cite of Ierusalem their abhominacions,
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,
'Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Son of man, cause Ierusalem to know her abominations,
Thou sonne of man, shewe Hierusale their abhominations,
Son of man, testify to Jerusalem of her iniquities;
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
and he seide, Sone of man, make thou knowun to Jerusalem her abhomynaciouns; and thou schalt seie,
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her disgusting behaviors;
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
"Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominable practices
"Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
"Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable sins.
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her hated sins.
Mortal, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
Son of man Let Jerusalem know her abominations,
Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
`Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and thou hast said:
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
cause: Ezekiel 20:4, Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 23:36, Ezekiel 33:7-9, Isaiah 58:1, Hosea 8:1
abominations: Ezekiel 8:9-17
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 2:1 - Son Micah 3:8 - to declare
Cross-References
The man answered, "The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it."
And he said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you.
Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,
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.
Abram had intercourse with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she found out that she was pregnant, she became proud and despised Sarai.
Abram answered, "Very well, she is your slave and under your control; do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so cruelly that she ran away.
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.
I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants."
One of them said, "Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations. That is, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as the Targum; these are mentioned instead of the whole body of the people, because that Jerusalem was the metropolis of the nation, whose sins were very many and heinous: called "abominations", because abominable to God, and rendered them so to him; particularly their idolatries are meant; which, though committed by them, and so must be known to them, yet were not owned, confessed, and repented of by them, they not being convinced of the evil of them; in order to which the prophet is bid to set them before them, and show them the evil nature of them; and which he might do by writing to them, for he himself was now in Chaldea with the captives there. The Targum is,
"son of man, reprove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and show them their abominations.''
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 16:2. Cause Jerusalem to know her abominations — And such a revelation of impurity never was seen before or since. Surely the state of the Jews, before the Babylonish captivity, was the most profligate and corrupt of all the nations of the earth. This chapter contains God's manifesto against this most abominable people; and although there are many metaphors here, yet all is not metaphorical. Where there was so much idolatry, there must have been adulteries, fornications, prostitutions, and lewdness of every description. The description of the prophet is sufficiently clear, except where there is a reference to ancient and obsolete customs. What a description of crimes! The sixth satire of Juvenal is its counterpart. General remarks are all that a commentator is justified in bestowing on this very long, very circumstantial, and caustic invective. For its key, see on the thirteenth and sixty-third verses. Ezekiel 16:13; "Ezekiel 16:63".