Ezekiel 16:3-7; Ezekiel 16:43; Ezekiel 16:60-63; Hosea 11:1; Hosea 2:3; Jeremiah 2:2
Borne unto me - me is emphatic. The children of Yahweh have been devoted to Moloch. The rites of Moloch were twofold; (1) The actual sacrifice...
slain My children . See note on Ezekiel 16:20 , above. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 18:21 ). App-92. children . sons.
He strengthens the same sentence, and more clearly explains that they offered their sons and daughters by cruelly sacrificing them when they pa...
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? To cause them to pass through the fire - Bp....
Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is th...
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...
That thou hast slain my children ,.... By creation, as all born into the world are; and by national adoption, as all the Jewish children were; and p...
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through [the fire] for them? Ver. 21. That thou hast slain my childre...
Thou hast taken thy sons, &c., whom thou hast borne unto me Being married to me by a spiritual contract, Ezekiel 16:8 . The children, with who...
Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. B. C. 593....
Thy blind superstition called this religion, and accounted it sacrifice, but truth is it was unnatural murder; it is as if thou hadst cut their throa...
“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these you have sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your who...
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
That thou hast slain My children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? namely, for the idols,
For them — For the idols.
21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?