But when Jerusalem was born, none of this was done. This, no doubt, would be to kill bacteria, because salt is a tremendous antiseptic as far as killing bacteria.We were out in a group that were exploring for the lost Virgin Guadalupe mine, and we were blasting away some boulders. "But you see, behind this scene there was the pride, there was the prosperity, there was the idleness of time. A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts repeat. Not just throwing an old gunnysack at you and saying, "Dress up." Of course, the guy winced like everything. And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live. Those that in sincerity join themselves to the true God find enough in him for their satisfaction; and, though they still desire more of God, yet they never desire more than God. As a matter of fact, if my grandmother had even remotely thought that someone was coming from witchcraft, she would have distanced herself as far as possible from that person, and whatever it was they were trying to teach her. So as the nation developed, the time came for love, and God came to the nation to receive the love, entered into a covenant, married them in that sense. They were fond of the idols of those nations which had been their oppressors and persecutors. And now is not Jerusalem in all this made to know her abominations? Exodus 2:24,25 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob, Exodus 3:7,8 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; . Now, at the end of the verse, where he says, they do not come, and it shall not be, some explain this part as if the Prophet had said that there was no instance like it in former ages, and there should be none such hereafter. For the Lord declared, "For it was perfect," that is your beauty. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Prophets: Ezekiel 16:6 When I passed by you and saw (Ezek. Blood vessels, which first narrowed to stop the bleeding, now dilate. Neither hath Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and you have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done ( Ezekiel 16:50-51 ). In Ezekiel 16:7 the description of the real fact breaks through the allegory. That if all of the Christians got out and voted for those Christians that are running for these offices, they could be elected to these offices and we could actually perhaps help guide the curriculum of our schools. Sermon preached at Faith Protestant Reformed Church by Prof. Russell Dykstra on February 22, 2015.1. Well, I ask you to look at the United States today. 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. 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. ""I blessed you, I honored you, I prospered you. ", I saidIn contrast to Israel's helplessness stands God's omnipotent word of grace which bids the outcast little one "live.". The like things shall not come - The abominations reached the very utmost - nothing would hereafter be so bad as these had been. Whereas that person who is morally good, he's honest, he's sincere, you know, he has all of these qualities, so often that person does not feel a need of coming to Jesus Christ. It is as much a part of OUR HERITAGE as many things are to other people. 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. She built shrines and altars to other gods, and offered to those gods the things that Yahweh had freely given her (15-19). No doubt he compares the high places to tents, just as if a harlot wished to attract a number of eyes to herself, and, through desire of a crowd, should place her standard on a lofty place. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. And what God gives us the use of he still retains a property in. Compare 2 Kings 23:7. You were nothing; you were perishing. 6Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, Live. 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. "Henry's Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible". How came a virgin so well taught, so well educated, to be debauched? In this chapter Ezekiel describes Judahs relationship with Yahweh by means of a long and colourful illustration. And so Jerusalem well, first of all, rather the Amorites followed by the Hittites. Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. The washing of our lives through the blood of Jesus Christ. KJV: 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. I have witnessed this working on nosebleeds, cuts, and more and have recited the verse over my own daughter when her nose was bleeding at a steady stream, and it stopped almost immediately. They forget it was God who made us strong. You were meandering through life. There are some dogs that are just mean; you don't want to be around them. And in looking for things to fill their idle time, they began to indulge themselves and their flesh. Like you said, when you believe the word of God, and you have faith in its words, you generally see results! 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? And I don't care how moral, how honest, how sincere, and how good a person you are. Whichever way the world was flowing, that's the way you were going. Here we may see with wonder and horror what the corrupt nature of men is when God leaves them to themselves, yea, though they have the greatest advantages to be better and do better. And they shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. He says that the Jews erected houses of ill fame for themselves; and the language is mixed, because the Prophet, expresses simply the kind of harlotry of which he is speaking, and yet in the meantime mingles another figure; for he says that they took garments and made themselves altars. Polluted - wallowing, "treading upon oneself.". Follow Don't Forget The Old Ways on WordPress.com. 3. Start your free trial today! And they begin to attribute the strength to such foolish things as free enterprise, the democratic system. Now verse Ezekiel 16:6 , interestingly enough, from old times was used as a verse to stop hemorrhaging or stop the flow of blood. But look how the nation today has turned its back upon God.On the Lord's day, it has become a day where people go out and worship their idols. Im sure there are many who know nothing about it. And as for thy nativity, in the day in which you were born thy naval was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all ( Ezekiel 16:4 ). 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. 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. And it is a great aggravation of sin when men are their own tempters, and, instead of proposing to themselves any worldly advantage by their sin, are at great expense with it; such are transgressors without cause (Psalms 25:3), wicked transgressors indeed. Entering into that covenant relationship where God claimed them as His own, as His bride. But I interpret it more simply that she was exposed to every passer-by, and that it was in his power to engage her. So God said, "I've begun to turn you over to your enemies.". 1706.return to 'Jump List'. There is nothing that makes us spiritually acceptable. So glad you hit publish! Thanks so much for reading and responding! And I washed thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. so Ben Melech; and , "high places", does agree with , "come". 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. 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. I purchased you. Our hearts are dark and empty and . They adorned their idol-temples, and groves, and high places, with the fine rich clothing that God had given them (Ezekiel 16:16; Ezekiel 16:18): Thou deckedst thy high places with divers colours, with the coats of divers colours, like Joseph's, which God had given them as particular marks of his favour, and hast played the harlot (that is, worshipped idols) thereupon. 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. 4 And as for thy natiuity in the day thou wast borne, thy nauell was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee: thou wast not salted at all, nor swadled at all. God made a covenant with them, "You are Mine." "And I girded thee about with fine linen." God is talking about when He first saw the nation of Israel, Jerusalem, the people of Jerusalem. So as the nation developed, the time came for love, and God came to the nation to receive the love, entered into a covenant, married them in that sense. And then God said, "I've given you to eat the fine flour and honey and oil. "And you were by nature," Paul said, "the children of wrath, because you were obeying the lust of your flesh, the lust of your mind." 2. Israel was unfaithful to the one who had done so much for her. "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'. (LogOut/ 3. Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom you have borne unto me, and these have you sacrificed unto them to be devoured. I had a cousin one time whos baby became deathly ill and the old timey doctor that she took the child to gave her one thing to do let the child get DIRTY lol. Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. By letting in them both pollute her streams. 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. How many of you have really planned to vote? Ezekiel 16:6 New International Version 6 "'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, "Live!"[ a] Read full chapter Footnotes Ezekiel 16:6 A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts repeat and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, "Live!" And as I see the things that are happening in the United States, San Francisco, Hollywood, Washington, D.C., I realize that the cup of God's indignation is about to overflow, and America will be judged of God.God said. Because of this, blood flow in the affected area is increased. Shall we turn in our Bibles at this time to the sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. His people carried healing rocks, and I know some of them would eat the red dirt. And now you've prostituted yourselves. and saw thee in thine own blood; keeping up the simile of a newborn infant, that has nothing done to it, but is all over covered with menstruous blood; denoting the wretched and miserable estate the Jews were in when in Egypt; when they were not only loathsome and abominable to the Egyptians, and ill used and unpitied by them; but were in danger of being utterly destroyed, and ready to expire. And so God took so much care and so much skill to clothe us with the righteousness which is of Jesus Christ through faith. All rights reserved. They had also been vexatious to Israel: "And yet thou hast played the whore with them (Ezekiel 16:28; Ezekiel 16:28); though they lived at a greater distance, yet thou hast entertained their idols and their superstitious usages, and so hast multiplied thy fornications unto Chaldea, hast borrowed images of gods, patterns of altars, rites of sacrificing, and one foolery or other of that kind, from that remote country, that enemy's country, and hast imported them into the land of Canaan, enfranchised and established them there." The Jewish nation, by leaving their own God, and doting on the gods of the nations round about them, had made themselves mean and despicable in the eyes even of their heathen neighbours; much more was their beauty abhorred by all that were wise and good, and had any concern for the honour of God and religion. It was like an unwanted baby girl thrown out at birth and left to die (16:1-5). Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. Because you have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet you couldn't be satisfied. Note, There is no sin so heinous, so apparently heinous, which men of profligate consciences will not make a mock at. Janet, . It is his still, so that we ought to serve and honour him with it, and are accountable to him for the disposal of it. The girl survived and grew, though without training or upbringing (6-7).Many years later, by which time the girl had reached an age when she might marry, the same traveller happened to see her again. Ezekiel 16:6 Context Crossref Comm Hebrew Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version "'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, "Live!" New Living Translation "But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. Copyright 2019 by Zondervan. 20 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. There is a Dr. Peterson, there is a George Rhoda, both of them outstanding born again Christians running for school board. 3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. This goes back to the early settling of the states and things brought . They have peptic type of dispositions, like their stomach is constantly upset or something. These things thou hast done. "Through My comeliness which I had put on thee," saith the Lord.And so God works in us His work of the Spirit. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! King James Version (KJV). Gittin. 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. We have phlegmatic, and we have different types of temperaments, and none of them really have any acceptance before God. d "et fecisti tibi excelsa maculosa", Montanus; "excelsa conspera maculis", Calvin; "latis maculis interstincta", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. 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! How far we have fallen when Superman replaces the Word of God on television on Sunday mornings. 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. They were at great expense with their idolatry, and laid out a great deal of wealth in purchasing patterns of images and altars, and hiring priests to attend upon them from other countries. Your email address will not be published. That righteousness that is ours is that which God has imputed to us through our faith in Jesus Christ. So I will make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from me, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. Of this he saith, "The like things shall not come, neither shall it be so; that is, this is a thing by no means to be suffered; I will never endure such practices as these without showing my resentments." They were weak in understanding and in resolution (Ezekiel 16:30; Ezekiel 16:30): How weak is thy heart, seeing thou dost all these things. 16 You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. For this they were justly chastised by the Philistines. 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. They had been under the rebukes of Providence for their sins, and yet they persisted in them (Ezekiel 16:27; Ezekiel 16:27): I have stretched out my hand over thee, to threaten and frighten thee. The sense does not seem to me doubtful, because the Jews were so cast out, that no liberty remained to them, as when a woman becomes abandoned, she is the slave of all, and all use her disgracefully after that, since she is no longer her own mistress. You know, there are so many people that are just sort of good-natured people. One prays for healing using different bible verses, a verse from Ezekiel 16 is used for healing humans or animals that has bleeding that can not be stopped, to stop the bleeding. How came the people of God to be drawn away to the service of idols? As Paul writes in Ephesians 2 , "And you hath He made alive, who were dead in your trespasses and sins. But I'm the one that rescued you and saved you and put My beauty on you. The clauses which follow describe the arrival of puberty. Sandals were more the dress for that, but these were luxurious leather slippers. And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none follows thee to commit whoredoms: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to thee, therefore you are contrary. Then a passing traveller (Yahweh) picked the baby up and gave it a chance to live. Ezekiel 16:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful . And they said, "Get out of here. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head. Or, "I gave you shoes of badger skins." He had created them, took them when they were nothing, made them great, made them beautiful. One example is the following verse, from Ezekiel 16:6, And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.. A day for pleasure, a day for seeking after the flesh, a day of attempting to satiate the flesh in pleasure. And they were, because soft leather, they were worn for parties and for luxuries. 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. So God did before he laid his hand upon them to ruin and destroy them; and that is his usual method, to try to bring men to repentance first by less judgments. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. Ezekiel 20:5-10 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; , Exodus 19:4-6 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 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. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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. Ezekiel 16:6 ESV "And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' NIV 'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, 'Live!' And they were going to grab him, and the angels said to Lot, "Stand back." As you lay there, I said, 'Live!' 9Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. 25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. The man then lovingly bathed her, clothed her, married her, and made her so beautiful that her fame spread to other nations. Note, In the account which impenitent sinners shall be called to they will be told not only of the mercies for which they have been ungrateful, but of the afflictions under which they have been incorrigible, Amos 4:11. The Expect. Of course, there is MUCH debate about faith-related issues, so this certainly wont escape it either, however, arguing or debating about these things is ultimately useless. p. 993). 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. What were the particulars of it. New King James Version (NKJV). , when applied to the breasts, means to expand, lit., to raise oneself up. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. Men began to look for things to fill in their idle time. No, it certainly doesnt sound crazy, thats actually a Native American thing, if Im not mistaken. 34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary. And you were exceedingly beautiful and you prospered into a kingdom. There are some people that are just mean; you don't want to be around them. And he usually is coming to the Lord more readily. In these verses we have an account of the great wickedness of the people of Israel, especially in worshipping idols, notwithstanding the great favours that God had conferred upon them, by which, one would think, they should have been for ever engaged to him. Yes, I said to you {while you were} in your blood, 'Live! fol. 2. What did you do? The next thing is judgment. AudioBSB - GilbertBSB - HaysBSB - SouerBSB - Gilbert + Music. Because it is the corrupting and defiling of the mind, and the enslaving of the spiritual part of the man, and subjecting it to the power and dominion of sense, as whoredom is. 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. Genesis 30:32; alluding to garments spotted with the flesh by adulterers. This is referred to as the blood verse.
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