Ezekiel 16:30-50 BSB

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:37

37. With whom thou hast taken pleasure Or, unto whom thou hast been pleasant. I… will discover thy nakedness unto them Her judges shall be her lovers, whom she, like Ishtar, has welcomed and discarded one by one. She has succeeded in making religious and political alliances first with one power and then with another; but presently the nations will see how untrustworthy and feeble she is and will scorn her. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:38

38. I will judge thee The scorn of the nations whose favor she has courted will be the least of her punishment. I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy Rather, I will make thee to be the blood of fury and jealousy. The meaning is that hers shall be the bloody death which, according to the law, the furious husband could inflict upon the wife who has been untrue to the marriage vow and has shed the blood of her child. (See Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:36; Ezekiel 23:25; Leviticus 20:10;... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:39

39. I will also give thee into their hand Her former lovers shall be her executioners. She shall be stoned and thrust through with their swords. They shall take from her all the beautiful treasures which her husband had given to her (Ezekiel 16:10-12) and leave her once more in nakedness and penury, unable to hire new lovers (Ezekiel 16:41). read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:40

40. Stone thee Stoning was the penalty for adultery under the Jewish law (Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22). read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:41

41. Burn thine houses The use of the sword and of fire was not a part of the ordinary punishment of the adulteress. It shows special indignation and rage against the culprit. (Compare Judges 15:6.) Historically all these threatened judgments against Jerusalem did take place, and it was indeed her “lovers,” the Assyrians and Egyptians, who inflicted the punishment. In the sight of many women Surrounding nations, who needed to take warning from Jerusalem’s fate. read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:42

42. Make my fury toward thee to rest Literally, satisfy my fury upon thee. (See Ezekiel 16:13.) read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:43

43. Because This punishment is not hasty nor arbitrary. It only comes after crimes so long continued that it would be positively wicked to let such lewdness go unpunished any longer. Thou… hast fretted me “The original scarcely bears the transitive sense in this form of the verb.” Cowles. Perhaps “thou hast raged against me.” (Compare 2 Kings 19:27-28.) Thou shalt not commit this lewdness Havernick and Keil would read, “I will not do wickedly because of all thy abominations;” that is,... read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:44-45

44, 45. See notes Ezekiel 5:3. The use of proverbs is one of Ezekiel’s favorite literary devices. That loatheth her husband If the allegory is continued here, Ezekiel, like St. Paul, must be teaching that Jehovah is God of the whole earth and that idolatry originated through unfaithfulness to the true God. (See Romans 1:20-24.) It may be, however, that this is a side reference to the actual adultery and child murder which the Jews so abhorred in the Canaanites. read more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:44-59

THE LOATHSOMENESS OF JERUSALEM, THE SPIRITUAL SISTER OF SODOM AND SAMARIA, DESCRIBED, Ezekiel 16:44-59. How brave the prophet who could speak thus! What awful satire, what dreadful execration! No wonder the prophet grew angry and bitter when he saw what burden of denunciation had been laid upon him. To say that his own beloved people are no better than the Hittites and Amorites, whom they abhorred; to say that Sodom and Samaria are their nearest spiritual relatives; to go further, and declare... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:46

46. Elder sister… younger sister The reference is not to the relative age of Sodom and Samaria as compared with Jerusalem, but to their relative importance. And her daughters Suburban towns and colonies. read more

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:37

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:38

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:39

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:40

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:41

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:42

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:43

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:44-45

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:44-59

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:46

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