Ezekiel 16:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the Lord GOD. Hebrew. Adonai Jehovah. See note on Ezekiel 2:4.

birth, &c.. excisions and kinships. Compare Isaiah 61:1. Only other occurrences, Ezekiel 21:30; Ezekiel 29:14.

thy father, &c. i.e. thy founder. This refers to the first builders of Jebus; not to Abraham and his seed. Jebus was. Canaanite city. See App-68. Thus Satan occupied in advance both land and capital as soon as the promise to Abraham was known. See App-23 and App-26.

Ezekiel 16:3

3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birtha and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.