Ezekiel 16:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. ”

Ezekiel 16:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare 2 Kings 23:7 . Such decoration of idol-temples in the holy land showed how the ungrateful people were devoting the wealth and energies which Yahweh had given them to the service of those f...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And of thy garments thou didst take, and didst deck thy high places with various colours, (m) and didst play the harlot upon them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]. (m) Thi...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the like things. Supply the Ellipsis better thus: "thereupon: [saying] they (the curses) come not, and it (the threatened judgment) will not be. "
Ezekiel 16:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He says that the Jews erected houses of ill fame for themselves; and the language is mixed, because the Prophet, expresses simply the kind of harlotry of which he is speaking, and yet in the me...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so .
Ezekiel 16:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The like things, &c.— And hast refused to be mine. Houbigant.
Ezekiel 16:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. Deckedst thy...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 =...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deckedst thy high places with divers colours. — The use of colours, and especially of tapestry in colours, in the adornment of places of worship, was universal throughout the religions of antiquity...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Ezekiel 16:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have here, under the same figure, carried on, of the sad departures which, even after grace, is too often discoverable in the Church. Israel, of old, to whom the Prophet is speaking, was remarkabl...
Ezekiel 16:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And of thy garments thou didst take ,.... Which were made of fine linen, silk, and broidered work; which God had given them, and they were richly clad with: and deckedst thy high places with diver...
Ezekiel 16:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]. Ver. 16. And...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But thou didst trust in thine own beauty Houbigant translates this, “But thou, trusting in thy beauty, didst play the harlot, degenerating from thy renown:” as if he had said, Thou didst abuse thos...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. B. C. 593. 15 But thou didst trust...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Of thy garments; hers they were for use, by gift of God, but she looked on them as hers, without respect to either the giver or use intended. Those costly, royal robes, the very wedding clothes and...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“And you took of your clothes and made for yourself high places decked with various colours (RSV ‘gaily decked shrines'), and played the prostitute on them. The like things shall not come, neither sh...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ISRAEL’S APOSTACY FROM GOD ( Ezekiel 16:15-34 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES. Its origin and nature ( Ezekiel 16:15-22 ); its magnitude and extent ( Ezekiel 16:23-34 ). Ezekiel 16:15 . The apostacy of Israel...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 16:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezekiel 16:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Ezekiel 16:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People
Ezekiel 16:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 28:24 ; 2 Kings 23:7 ; Ezekiel 7:20 ; Hosea 2:8
Ezekiel 16:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...
Ezekiel 16:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Thy garments — Those costly, royal robes, the very wedding clothes. High places — Where the idol was. With divers colours — With those beautiful clothes I put upon thee. The like things — As there...

Ezekiel 16:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 16:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 16:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 16:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 16:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 16:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 16:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 16:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ezekiel 16:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 16:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 16:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 16:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 16:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Ezekiel 16:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes