Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Idolatry is frequently represented by the prophets under the figure of a wife’s unfaithfulness to her husband. This image is here so portrayed, as...
Ezekiel 16. Jerusalem the Ungrateful, the Unfaithful. Again Ezekiel returns to the indictment which justifies the doom. This time it takes the form...
the LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4.
This chapter contains very severe reproaches against the people of Judea who were left at Jerusalem. For although Ezekiel had been a leader to...
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (1) Taken up by God's gratuitous favour from infancy ( Ezekiel 16:1-7 ); (2) and, when grown...
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...
CONTENTS Under the similitude of a new-born female infant cast out and left to perish, this chapter describes the hopeless state of human nature by...
The Prophet is still preaching to Jerusalem, though himself in Babylon. He is commissioned by the Lord to trace the history of the Church from her bi...
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. The word of prophecy from the Lord, as the Targum; the following representation was made to him un...
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 1. Again the word of the Lord came unto me. ] For the better setting on of what had been sai...
The Meanness of Judah's Origin. B. C. 593. ...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 16 Under the similitude of a helpless exposed infant is represented the original state of Jerusalem, Ezekiel 16:1-5 ; whom God i...
‘Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations.” ' God will now recount Israel's great sin and...
ISRAEL’S INGRATITUDE, PUNISHMENT, AND, IN THE END, FORGIVENESS. (Chap. 16) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet surveys the entire development of the natio...
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...
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations. Vile ingratitude I. Let us consider our iniquities--I mean those committed since conversi...
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...
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
God's Early Grace upon his People
Ezekiel 16:1
A Story of Redemption Ezekiel 16:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We want to bring before you the natural inheritance of all men; that is, we want to d...
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,