Deuteronomy 32:14-17; Ezekiel 16:13; Genesis 8:21; Hosea 2:8-13
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...
Here God complains that the Jews turned their abundance of all things to perverse worship: for, as a husband who indulges his wife freely suppl...
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 b...
And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense And tookest thy broidered garments, and cov...
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...
The Foundling Child who became an Unfaithful Wife From Hosea onwards the prophets spoke of idolatry under the figure of unchastity. God was the hu...
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, w...
The second figure was that of the adulteress, and this the prophet wrought out at great length. Jerusalem was arraigned on account of her abomination...
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 o...
And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them ,.... The images of men, the idols they worshipped; see Jeremiah 10:4 ; so the Papists at th...
And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. Ver. 18. And tookest thy broidere...
But thou didst trust in thine own beauty Houbigant translates this, “But thou, trusting in thy beauty, didst play the harlot, degenerating from thy...
Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. B. C. 593....
Thy broidered garments, mentioned Ezekiel 16:10 , given by him who espoused this woman. Coveredst them; didst clothe the adulterers with whom th...
“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 c...
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:...
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 car...
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 fro...
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 so...
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...
The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People
And tookest thy broidered garments and coveredst them, the idols often being decked with the richest draperies; and thou hast set Mine oil and Mine...
Coveredst — Didst clothe the images thou hadst made. Set mine oil — In lamps to burn before them.
18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.