the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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THE MESSAGE
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,
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,
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 children.
Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.
So Sarai, Abram's wife, took her Egyptian maid Hagar and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife. Abram had been living ten years in Canaan when this took place. He slept with Hagar and she got pregnant. When Hagar learned she was pregnant, she looked down on her mistress.
The angel of God said, "Go back to your mistress. Put up with her abuse." He continued, "I'm going to give you a big family, children past counting. From this pregnancy, you'll get a son: Name him Ishmael; for God heard you, God answered you. He'll be a bucking bronco of a man, a real fighter, fighting and being fought, Always stirring up trouble, always at odds with his family."
Isaac prayed hard to God for his wife because she was barren. God answered his prayer and Rebekah became pregnant. But the children tumbled and kicked inside her so much that she said, "If this is the way it's going to be, why go on living?" She went to God to find out what was going on. God told her, Two nations are in your womb, two peoples butting heads while still in your body. One people will overpower the other, and the older will serve the younger.
At that time there was a man named Manoah from Zorah from the tribe of Dan. His wife was barren and childless. The angel of God appeared to her and told her, "I know that you are barren and childless, but you're going to become pregnant and bear a son. But take much care: Drink no wine or beer; eat nothing ritually unclean. You are, in fact, pregnant right now, carrying a son. No razor will touch his head—the boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of his birth. He will launch the deliverance from Philistine oppression."
"And did you know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is? Everyone called her barren, and here she is six months pregnant! Nothing, you see, is impossible with God." And Mary said, Yes, I see it all now: I'm the Lord's maid, ready to serve. Let it be with me just as you say. Then the angel left her.
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
