Eze 16 | TSK | STEP | Under the similitude of a wretched infant is shewn the natural state of Jerusalem. God's extraordinary love towards her. Her monstrous whoredom. Her grievous judgment. Her sin, equal to her mother, and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, calls for judgments. Mercy is promised her in the end.

because.Raised from the most abject state to dignity and splendour by Jehovah, Israel became proud of her numbers, riches, strength, and reputation, forgetting that it was "through his comeliness which he had put upon them;" and thus departing from God, made alliances with heathen nations, and worshipped their idols.

and pouredst.

25,36,37

7:20; 2Ki 23:7; 2Ch 28:24; Ho 2:8

hast also.

7:19; 23:14-21; Ex 32:1-4; Ho 2:13; 10:1

men. Heb. a male. and didst.

Isa 44:19,20; 57:7,8; Jer 2:27,28; 3:9 This seems to intimate that the Israelites not only spent their own wealth and abundance in building and decorating idol temples, and in maintaining their worship, but that they made use of the holy vestments, and the various kinds of offerings which belonged to Jehovah, in order to honour and serve the idols of the heathen.

meat.

13; De 32:14-17; Ho 2:8-13

a sweet savour. Heb. a savour of rest.

Ge 8:21; *marg:

thy sons.

21; 23:4; Ge 17:7; Ex 13:2,12; De 29:11,12

and these.

20:26,31; 23:37,39; 2Ki 16:3; 2Ch 33:6; Ps 106:37,38; Isa 57:5

Jer 7:31; 32:35; Mic 6:7

be devoured. Heb. devour. Is this.

8:17; Jer 2:34,35

my children.

Ps 106:37

to pass.

Le 18:21; 20:1-5; De 18:10; 2Ki 17:17; 21:6; 23:10

3-7,43,60-63; Jer 2:2; Ho 2:3; 11:1

woe.

2:10; 13:3,18; 24:6; Jer 13:27; Zep 3:1; Mt 11:21; 23:13-29; Re 8:13

Re 12:12

thou hast.

31,39; 20:28,29; 2Ki 21:3-7; 23:5-7,11,12; 2Ch 33:3-7

eminent place. or, brothel house. and hast.

Le 26:30; Ps 78:58; Isa 57:5,7; Jer 2:20; 3:2; 17:3

at every.

31; Ge 38:14,21; Pr 9:14,15; Isa 3:9; Jer 2:23,24; 3:2; 6:15

and hast made.

23:9,10,32; Re 17:1-5,12,13,16

with the.

8:10,14; 20:7,8; 23:3,8,19-21; Ex 32:4; De 29:16,17; Jos 24:14

Isa 30:21

I have.

14:9; Isa 5:25; 9:12,17

and have.

De 28:48-57; Isa 3:1; Ho 2:9-12

thine.{Chukkach,} "thy portion;" the household provision of a wife--food, clothes, and money.

delivered.The Jews, under Manasseh, and the succeeding kings of Judah, made the temple itself the scene of their open and abominable idolatries, in addition to all their idol temples! which appears to be meant by "the eminent place," and "highplaces in every street," ver. 24. Allured by the prosperity of the Egyptians, they also connected themselves with them, and joined in their multiplied and abominable idolatries. And when Jehovah punished them by wars and famines, and by the Philistines, whose daughters are represented as ashamed of their enormous idolatries, instead of being amended, they formed alliances with the Assyrians, and worshipped their gods: and they even followed every idol which was worshipped between Canaan and Chaldea.

37; 23:22,25,28,29,46,47; Ps 106:41; Jer 34:21; Re 17:16

daughters. or, cities.

2Ki 24:2; 2Ch 28:18,19; Isa 9:12

which.

47,57; 5:6,7

23:5-9,12-21; Jud 10:6; 2Ki 16:7,10-18; 21:11; 2Ch 28:23

Jer 2:18,36; Ho 10:6

in the land.

13:14-23; Jud 2:12-19; 2Ki 21:9

unto.

23:14-21

weak.

Pr 9:13; Isa 1:3; Jer 2:12,13; 4:22

the work.

Jud 16:15,16; Pr 7:11-13,21; Isa 3:9; Jer 3:3; Re 17:1-6

In that thou buildest thine. or, In thy daughters is thine,etc.

24,39

makest.

25; Ho 12:11

in that thou scornest.

33,34; Isa 52:3

8; 23:37,45; Jer 2:25,28; 3:1,8,9,20; Ho 2:2; 3:1; 2Co 11:2,3

give.

Ge 38:16-18; De 23:17,18; Ho 2:12; Joe 3:3; Mic 1:7; Lu 15:30

but thou.

Isa 30:3,6,7; 57:9; Ho 8:9,10

hirest. Heb. bribest.

O harlot.

Isa 1:21; 23:15,16; Jer 3:1,6-8; Ho 2:5; Na 3:4; Joh 4:10,18

Re 17:5

hear.

13:2; 20:47; 34:7; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; 28:14; Ho 4:1; Am 7:16

Because.

15-22; 22:15; 23:8; 24:13; 36:25; La 1:9; Zep 3:1

and thy.

23:10,18,29; Ge 3:7,10,11; Ps 139:11,12; Jer 13:22-26; Re 3:18

and by.

20,21; Jer 2:34

23:9,10,22-30; Jer 4:30; 13:22,26; 22:20; La 1:8,19; Ho 2:3,10

Ho 8:10; Na 3:5,6; Re 17:16

as women. Heb. with judgments of women, etc.

40; 23:45-47; Ge 38:11,24; Le 20:10; De 22:22-24; Mt 1:18,19

Joh 8:3-5

shed.

20,21,36; Ge 9:6; Ex 21:12; Nu 35:31; Ps 79:3-5; Jer 18:21

Zep 1:17; Na 1:2; Re 16:6

And I.For the enormous idolatries and cruelties of Judah and Jerusalem, Jehovah determined to gather together the surrounding nations, both those with whom they had formed alliances, as the Egyptians and Assyrians, and such as had always been inimical to them, as Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Philistia, to inflict, or to witness, his judgments upon them. Having exposed their enormous crimes to view, He would pass sentence upon them: He would give Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who would destroy the city and temple which they had polluted; level their cities and high places with the ground; slay, plunder, and enslave the people.

they shall throw.

24,25,31; 7:22-24; Isa 27:9

shall strip.

10-20; 23:26,29; Isa 3:16-24; Ho 2:3,9-13

thy fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thine ornament.

shall also.

Hab 1:6-10; Joh 8:5-7

and thrust.

23:10,47; 24:21; Jer 25:9

burn.

De 13:16; 2Ki 25:9; Jer 39:8; 52:13; Mic 3:12

and execute.