“ Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ”
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 re...
Ezekiel 16. Jerusalem the Ungrateful, the Unfaithful. Again Ezekiel returns to the indictment which justifies the doom. This time it takes the form of a merciless exposure, in allegorical form, of...
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This chapter contains very severe reproaches against the people of Judea who were left at Jerusalem. For although Ezekiel had been a leader to the Israelites and the Jewish exiles, yet God wish...
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (1) Taken up by God's gratuitous favour from infancy ( Ezekiel 16:1-7 ); (2) and, when grown up, joined to Him in spiritual marriage ( Ezekiel...
Ritual of the Day of Atonement (See also Leviticus 23:26-32 ; Numbers 29:7-11 ; Exodus 30:10 .) This solemn ceremonial took place once a year on the tenth day of the seventh month ( Tishri =...
JERUSALEM-AN IDEAL HISTORY Ezekiel 16:1-63 IN order to understand the place which the sixteenth chapter occupies in this section of the book, we must remember that a chief source of the antagon...
The second figure was that of the adulteress, and this the prophet wrought out at great length. Jerusalem was arraigned on account of her abominations, which were described under the figure of that s...
CONTENTS Under the similitude of a new-born female infant cast out and left to perish, this chapter describes the hopeless state of human nature by the fall. The riches of grace in the salvation of...
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.
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 1. Again the word of the Lord came unto me. ] For the better setting on of what had been said in the foregoing chapter, for cutting the combs...
The Meanness of Judah's Origin. B. C. 593. 1 Again the word of the L ORD came unto me,...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 16 Under the similitude of a helpless exposed infant is represented the original state of Jerusalem, Ezekiel 16:1-5 ; whom God is described to have bred up, married, and treated...
‘Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations.” ' God will now recount Israel's great sin and apostasy, to show her the greatness of the sin tha...
ISRAEL’S INGRATITUDE, PUNISHMENT, AND, IN THE END, FORGIVENESS. (Chap. 16) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet surveys the entire development of the nation, past and future. Their original condition was m...
In this very remarkable chapter, God describes his ancient people Israel under the figure of an infant which had been cast away, but which he had cared for and tended, and upon which he had lavished...
Ezekiel 16:3 . Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite, a Chittith, a family of immodesty. The Israelites gloried in their descent from the holy patriarchs, heirs of the promises; but...
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations. Vile ingratitude I. Let us consider our iniquities--I mean those committed since conversion, those committed yesterday, and the day before,...
EXPOSITION The section on which we now enter, with its companion picture in Ezekiel 23:1-26 ; forms the most terrible, one might almost say the most repellent, part of Ezekiel's prophetic utter...
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
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A Story of Redemption Ezekiel 16:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We want to bring before you the natural inheritance of all men; that is, we want to discuss what we were by nature, before grace found...