Ezekiel 16:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! ”

Ezekiel 16:32 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

But as . [Thou halt been].
Ezekiel 16:32 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Some translate it an adulteress under her husband’s roof, and תחת, thecheth, signifies “instead of:” and they explain it thus, that adulteresses do not divorce themselves from their husbands...
Ezekiel 16:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! Which taketh strangers instead of her husband - referring to Numbers 5:19-20 ; Numbers 5:29 . Fairbair...
Ezekiel 16:32 - 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 16:32 - 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 16:32 - 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 16:32 - 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 16:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[But as] a wife that committeth adultery ,.... Who has a husband, and is provided for with all the necessaries of life, with food and clothing; and so has no need to prostitute herself for a livelih...
Ezekiel 16:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 16:32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband! Ver. 32. Which taketh strangers instead of her husband. ] This is a foul mistake; wedlock...
Ezekiel 16:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How weak is thy heart Not only unstable as to good resolutions, but even restless and unsettled in evil practices, still hankering after some new kind of idolatry, and resolved to indulge a wanderi...
Ezekiel 16:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. B. C. 593. 15 But thou didst trust...
Ezekiel 16:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Here begins the antithesis. A wife, adulteress, such as the prophet compareth this nation to, which hath a most rich, bountiful, and kind husband, she differs from common harlots in this point, she h...
Ezekiel 16:32 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious, whorish woman, in that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your...
Ezekiel 16:32 - 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 16:32 - 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 16:32 - 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 16:32 - 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 16:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People
Ezekiel 16:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 23:17 ; Deuteronomy 23:18 ; Genesis 38:16-18 ; Hosea 2:12 ; Hosea 8:10 ; Hosea 8:9 ; Isaiah 30:3 ; Isaiah 30:6 ; Isaiah 30:7 ; Isaiah 57:9 ; Joel 3:3 ; Luke 15:30 ; Micah 1:7...

Ezekiel 16:32 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 16:32 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 16:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 16:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 16:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 16:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 16:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 16:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 16:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 16:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 16:32 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 16:32 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ezekiel 16:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 16:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 16:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 16:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge