Just because it seems out of sorts, doesnt mean I can discard it and wipe it from my very own slate. The washing of our lives through the blood of Jesus Christ. And thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, that's illegal. Like you said, when you believe the word of God, and you have faith in its words, you generally see results! I have prospered you; I gave you gold and silver. Interp. Note, It should be an effectual check to our pride and sensuality to consider what we are and how much we are beholden to the free grace of God. And the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. Probably not very many. How that when the Lord first came to us, we were polluted because of our sins. And they said, "You're a stranger. A nation that in its beginning understood its dependency upon God; a nation that was framed with a Constitution guaranteeing the freedom of worship of the people, a freedom to worship; a nation that placed upon its coins, "In God we trust"; A nation that placed within its national anthem the recognition of God and in its pledge to the flag acknowledged it to be one nation under God. as they then sighed and cried because of their bondage, the Lord looked upon them with an eye of pity and compassion, and delivered them, Exodus 1:14; I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live: yea, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live; the Lord preserved them and saved them alive, when they were near to ruin, and delivered them by the hands of Moses, which was as life from the dead; and this he did of his own sovereign good will and pleasure, and not for any worth or merit, in them, any goodness or righteousness of theirs; for this he did when they were in their blood, pollution, and guilt; and which, that it might be observed, is repeated. And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. A day for pleasure, a day for seeking after the flesh, a day of attempting to satiate the flesh in pleasure. 5 None eye pitied thee to doe any of these vnto thee, to haue compassion vpon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast borne. They served their idols with the good things which God gave them for their own use and to serve him with (Ezekiel 16:18; Ezekiel 16:18): "Thou hast set my oil and my incense before the, upon their altars, as perfumes to these dunghill-deities; my meat, and fine flour, and oil, and that honey which Canaan flowed with, and wherewith I fed thee, thou hast regaled them and their hungry priests with, hast made an offering of it to them for a sweet savour, to purify them, and procure acceptance with them: and thus it was, saith the Lord God; it is too plain to be denied, too bad to be excused. II. Note, Spiritual lusts, those of the mind, such as theirs after idols were, are often as strong and impetuous as any carnal lusts are. Did you know that there are some outstanding Christians that are running for the school boards? Thou hast made for thyself a high place, for one idol or other, in every street, and at every head of the way; and again Ezekiel 16:31; Ezekiel 16:31. You come to live with us, and now are you gonna judge us?" There is a Dr. Peterson, there is a George Rhoda, both of them outstanding born again Christians running for school board. And in all thy abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when you were naked and bare, and you were polluted in your own blood ( Ezekiel 16:20-22 ). But when Jerusalem was born, none of this was done. (LogOut/ 9Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. As we go further in Ezekiel, we're going to find that a new there is an earthquake that is going to take place in Jerusalem that is going to create a new valley and is going to unlock an underground river, a spring that will begin to flow from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea with such a supply of water that when it comes into the Dead Sea, the waters of the Dead Sea will be healed and there will be all manner of fish and all there in the Dead Sea. Nevertheless, [the Lord said,] I will remember my covenant with you [you have broken it, but I'm going to remember it] in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant ( Ezekiel 16:60 ). Our hearts are dark and empty and . He had said to Abraham, I will be a God to thee and to thy seed; they had the seal of the covenant in their flesh from eight days old; they were to bear God's name, and keep up his church; to murder them was in the highest degree inhuman, but to murder them in honour of an idol was in the highest degree impious. And the only way any of us could ever stand before God, surely not in our own righteousness, because our righteousness is as filthy rags in the eyes of God. They made images for worship of the jewels which God had given them (Ezekiel 16:17; Ezekiel 16:17): The jewels of my gold and my silver which I had given thee. In Revelation 19 , verse Ezekiel 16:6 , He speaks about, "And the bride hath made herself ready and she was adorned in fine linen, pure and clean." The queen of Sheba came from the south to see and to hear. And one of the fellows that was with us, working with us, got hit by a piece of rock that had cut off from the boulder when we were blasting it out, and cut his hand. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee, And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thy, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. For what greater abominations could she be guilty of than these? Of course, the guy winced like everything. It came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! Nakedness represents deprivation of all the blessings of salvation with which the Lord endowed Israel and made it glorious, after He had adopted it as the people of His possession. And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. Ezekiel 16:6 New King James Version 6 "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' Read full chapter Ezekiel 16:6 in all English translations Ezekiel 15 Ezekiel 17 New King James Version (NKJV) Scripture taken from the New King James Version. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. Because it debauches the conscience, sears and hardens it; and those who by their idolatries dishonour the divine nature, and change the truth of God into a lie and his glory into shame, God justly punishes by giving them over to a reprobate mind, to dishonour the human nature with vile affections, Romans 1:23, c. It is a besotting bewitching sin and, when men are given up to it, they seldom recover themselves out of the snare. Which were made of fine linen, silk, and broidered work; which God had given them, and they were richly clad with: and deckedst thy high places with divers colours; that is, with garments of divers colours; either they erected tents on their high places, made with these; or they covered their altars with them, which were on their high places for the ornament of them, as harlots deck their beds to allure their lovers; see Proverbs 7:16; or "thou hast made for thyself high places spotted" d; so the word is rendered in. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell in thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwells at thy right hand, in the south is Sodom and her daughters. 6 " 'And I passed by you, and I saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, "Live! The word of God , live, was visibly fulfilled in the innumerable multiplication of Israel. Usually the customer pays the prostitute, but in the case of the prostitute Israel she paid the customer, so that she could multiply her immoral acts (30-34).According to Israelite practice, the punishment for an adulteress was to be stripped naked, paraded in public and then stoned to death. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head. You became famous, became renown throughout among the heathen. All rights reserved. What was the sin of Sodom? 2. In the latter case, the state of blood and defilement is made the very cause of life, because it called forth the pity of Him who gave life. I am the one that made this covenant with you. BEST VALUE in digital Bible study. But I interpret it more simply that she was exposed to every passer-by, and that it was in his power to engage her. 15 " 'But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. The old man supposedly hobbled out onto his front porch when he saw the car pull up and "took the scene in at once - the wan little boy holding a bloody rag to his nose, the distraught mother. And when I passed by thee While as yet no body took so much care of thee as to wash thee from thy native filthiness, I took pity on thee; as a traveller that passes by and sees an infant lie exposed; and I provided all things necessary for thy support. 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. In Ezekiel 16:7 the description of the real fact breaks through the allegory. Note, It is God that gives us our gold and silver; the products of trade, of art and industry, are the gifts of God's providence to us, as well as the fruits of the earth. Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. polluted in bloodbut Piscator, "ready to be trodden on. You were nothing; you were perishing. The Deserted Newborn2. In our own strength we are indeed weak and bloody. And so God speaks of them that they have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.Now, God here, of course, speaks of the day of restoration--even of Sodom and of Samaria. When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. Start your free trial today! Deuteronomy 9:4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. But now I have seen and it was not told to me half of the glory of your kingdom. 1. Now the badger of the scripture, what that Hebrew word is today we don't know. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Because it is the violation of a marriage-covenant with God, forsaking him and embracing the bosom of a stranger; it is giving that affection and that service to his rivals which are due to him alone. Genesis 30:32; alluding to garments spotted with the flesh by adulterers. Compare 2 Kings 23:7. 4. Really not for hard labor or hard work out in the fields. Bible verses about Woman With Bleeding. '- New American Standard Version (1995)And when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, I said unto thee, `Though thou art' in thy blood, live; yea, I said unto thee, `Though thou art' in thy blood, live.- American Standard Version (1901)And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;- Basic English BibleAnd I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, and I said unto thee, in thy blood, Live! They have peptic type of dispositions, like their stomach is constantly upset or something. Behold, I have a couple of daughters that are virgins, I'll turn them over to you. In a matter of hours, the bleeding stops, after which the process of inflammation begins, which is a complex, multi-stage reaction of the body. Apparently, its a belief that goes back much further than my generation or my parents generation because, as I have spoken with people over the years, it seems to be common knowledge among mountain people. "Live in thy blood," that is, Live, but live a life exposed to many deaths, as was the case in the beginnings of Israel's national existence, in order to magnify the grace of God [Calvin]. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. The clauses which follow describe the arrival of puberty. They were a people notorious for idolatry, and for the most sottish senseless idolatries; they had of old abused Israel by their barbarous dealings, and of late by their treacherous dealings-were always either cruel or false to them; and yet so infatuated were they that they committed fornication with the Egyptians their neighbours, not only by joining with them in their idolatries, but by entering into leagues and alliances with them, and depending upon them for help in their straits, which was an adulterous departure from God. And justly will that beauty, that excellency, at length be made the object of the loathing of others which men have made the matter of their own pride. There is nothing that makes us spiritually acceptable. So also the Prophet says that the Jews, when they gave themselves up to fornication, made high places for themselves. yea, I said unto thee, in thy blood, Live!- Darby BibleAnd when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thy own blood, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yes, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. 5None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. This is that which is here all along represented (as often elsewhere) under the similitude of whoredom and adultery, 1. It was like an unwanted baby girl thrown out at birth and left to die (16:1-5). These idols were decked as children's babies are; and so the Syriac version, "thou hast made for thyself babies"; images like babies, richly dressed with their garments above described, such as the papists now have; and playedst the harlot thereon; committed idolatry on the high places; or "with them" f; that is, with the images and idols decked with their garments, which were set on those high places: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]; the like idolatries shall set be committed any more; and after the Babylonish captivity worshipping of idols was not practised by the Jews; nor is it to this day: or such "things have not come yet", and there "shall not be" the like g; the sense is, there never were such idolatries committed by this people before; and there hover shall be, or will be, the like afterwards. Upon this instance of their idolatry, which indeed ought not to pass without a particular brand, this remark is made (Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:20), Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter? They forget it was God who made us strong. They forget how that God watched over the early colonists. Ive never heard much history on the belief, though, other than to just KNOW that it works. The Israelites began betimes to turn their jewels into idols, when Aaron made the golden calf of their earrings. And they were, because soft leather, they were worn for parties and for luxuries. To make matters worse, she participated in the pagan practice of offering her children as human sacrifices (20-22).As a prostitute uses brothels to attract her customers, so Israel built idol shrines throughout her towns and villages (23-25). , not most beautiful ornament, or highest charms, for is not the plural of ; but according to the Chetib and most of the editions, with the tone upon the penultima, is equivalent to , a dual form; so that cannot mean ornament in this case, but, as in Psalm 39:9 and Psalm 103:5, "the cheek," which is the traditional meaning (cf. mistixs Follow Master Age: 26 So I heard of a tradition in which you recite Ezekiel 16:6 three times, followed by the name of the person bleeding, to stop bleeding in a human or animal. 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; 31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire; 32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! "You haven't remembered how you were naked and had nothing.". Polluted - wallowing, "treading upon oneself.". Even those nations, Israels lovers, were ashamed of her immoral behaviour, but Israel kept lusting for more (26-29). It all depends on what the people are that live within that city. How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way [or every street], and you make your high place in every street; and you have not been as the harlot, in that thou hast scornest hire ( Ezekiel 16:28-31 ); You're even worse than a prostitute. And when she had been there with Solomon, she said, "Oh, I heard, but I did not believe. He was literally dumping bits of earth he had ordered online into his smoothies and recipes. He was first their lover. Now, before the children of Israel came to dwell in the land, the first inhabitants of the land of Palestine were the Hittites and then also the Amorites. And then the Lord goes on to declare, "I clothed thee with broidered work." By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA, including commercial communications and messages from partners of Bible Gateway. A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts repeat. Eze Ezk). Throughout the world they were talking of the beauty of the nation of the people. The Lord Passed By | Ezekiel 16:1-6 First Free Will Baptist Church 2.29K subscribers Subscribe 963 views 7 years ago Ezekiel 16:1-6 Music: The Duncan Boys Recorded on 03/31/2014 Show. Now, I don't think the verse does it, but their faith to believe that God is going to do it does stop the bleeding. The like things shall not come - The abominations reached the very utmost - nothing would hereafter be so bad as these had been. We did not have the wisdom to learn from history, and the Christians by their inactivity have allowed these to be.We're soon going to be electing school boards and other officials in our community. "I washed you from your pollution, and then," the Lord said, "I anointed thee with oil." Required fields are marked *. New International Version (NIV). And in looking for things to fill their idle time, they began to indulge themselves and their flesh. Especially knowing that the Word is ALIVE and Gods Word accomplishes what it sets out to do. That Seine shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames. Thou hast built thy high place at the head of every way, and you have made thy beauty to be abhorred, and you have opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. The righteousness which is of Christ through faith.Now, the difficulty is when a person does have more of a problem with his disposition, he is usually more conscious and aware of his need for help. 3. Still it was quite naked and bare ( and are substantives in the abstract sense of nakedness and bareness, used in the place of adjective to give greater emphasis). Then a passing traveller (Yahweh) picked the baby up and gave it a chance to live. One cannot think of it without the utmost indignation: to see the pitiless hands of the parents shedding the guiltless blood of their own children, and by offering those pieces of themselves to the devil for buying sacrifices openly avowing the offering up of themselves to him for living sacrifices! No foreign idol could be imported, no new god invented, but they were ready to catch at it, as a common trumpet that prostitutes herself to all comers and multiplies her whoredoms,Ezekiel 16:25; Ezekiel 16:25. And the area of the Dead Sea will no doubt become a verdant, beautiful valley again.
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