Ezekiel 16:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. ”

• Ezekiel 16:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Mine oil and mine incense - The oil was the produce of the land, the incense received in exchange for such produce. Both were the gifts of Yahweh and belonged to Him; yet the oil Exodus 25:6 ;...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Here God complains that the Jews turned their abundance of all things to perverse worship: for, as a husband who indulges his wife freely supplies all her wants, so a woman who is immodest was...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. Hast set mine oil and mine incense before them - It appears that they had made use of...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine i...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - 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 =...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them ,.... The images of men, the idols they worshipped; see Jeremiah 10:4 ; so the Papists at this day cover their idols, the images of the Virgin...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. Ver. 18. And tookest thy broidered, &c. ] See Ezekiel 16:16 .

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. B. C. 593.       15 But thou didst trust...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thy broidered garments, mentioned Ezekiel 16:10 , given by him who espoused this woman. Coveredst them; didst clothe the adulterers with whom thou didst commit lewdness, or didst clothe the imag...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “And you took your bordered clothes and covered them (the idols), and set my oil and my incense before them.” The catalogue of dastardly behaviour continues. They put the fine clothes that Yahweh ha...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Thou hast also taken thy fair Jewels of My gold. The degrading nature of sin Manton says, “If you saw a man labouring in filthy ditches, and soiling himself as poor men do, would you believe th...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 32:14-17 ; Ezekiel 16:13 ; Genesis 8:21 ; Hosea 2:8-13

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• Ezekiel 16:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Coveredst — Didst clothe the images thou hadst made. Set mine oil — In lamps to burn before them.

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