Ezekiel 16:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. ”

• Ezekiel 16:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  In the land ... - Probably used in the restricted sense of the low lands on the coast of the western sea; occupied by Phoenician colonies. The children of Israel were brought into contact at firs...

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  unto Chaldea . Assyrian idolatry as well as Egyptian ( Ezekiel 16:26 ). See the Structure, above.

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Here the Prophet teaches that the Jews were immoderate in their desires, just as if a woman was not satisfied with two or three followers, should wantonly crave after many lovers: such, says th...

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  In the land of Canaan unto Chaldea— With the land of Canaan, &c. Or, as Houbigant renders it, In the land of merchants among the Chaldeans.

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in ... Canaan unto Ch...

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - 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 16:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  In the land of Canaan unto Chaldæa. — Canaan was originally the name of only that strip of land between the hills and the sea occupied by the Phœnicians, in other words, the lowlands. Thence it bec...

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - 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 16:29 - 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 16:29 - 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 16:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan ,.... Or, "with the land of Canaan" l; with the inhabitants of it, doing the same evils, committing the same idolatries, as the ol...

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. Ver. 29. In the land of Canaan. ] Thou hast lived in my good land, but n...

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, therefore Open thine eyes, thou secure and foolish adulteress, see what has been done against thee, and consider it is for thy lewdness. I have stretched out my hand over thee I have chas...

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - 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 16:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Multiplied; both increased the number of thy idolatries, and made them greater, in that thou hast adopted the idols of Canaan, and all that between them and the Chaldeans are owned or worshipped....

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “You have moreover multiplied your whoredom in the land of Canaan as far as Chaldea and yet you were not satisfied herewith.” Now the Babylonian gods were included in their worship, both in Jerusale...

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - 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 16:29 - 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 16:29 - 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 16:29 - 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 16:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People

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• Ezekiel 16:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 1:3 ; Isaiah 3:9 ; Jeremiah 2:12 ; Jeremiah 2:13 ; Jeremiah 3:3 ; Jeremiah 4:22 ; Judges 16:15 ; Judges 16:16 ; Proverbs 7:11-13 ; Proverbs 7:21 ; Proverbs 9:13 ; Revelation 17:1-6...

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