Chapter 16
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
cause
20:4 22:2 23:36 33:7-9 Isaiah 58:1 Hosea 8:1
abominations
And 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.
Thy birth
Heb. Thy cutting out, or habitation.
45 21:30 Genesis 11:25,29 Joshua 24:14 Nehemiah 9:7 Isaiah 1:10 51:1,2 Matthew 3:7 11:24 Luke 3:7 John 8:44 Ephesians 2:3 1 John 3:10
Amorite
Genesis 15:16 Deuteronomy 20:17 1 Kings 21:26 2 Kings 21:11
Hittite
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
for
20:8,13 Genesis 15:13 Exodus 1:11-14 2:23,24 5:16-21 Deuteronomy 5:6 15:15 Joshua 24:2 Nehemiah 9:7-9 Hosea 2:3 Acts 7:6,7
to supple thee
or, when I looked upon thee. nor.
Lamentations 2:20 *marg:; Lamentations 2:22 Luke 2:7,12
None 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.
eye
2:6 Isaiah 49:15 Lamentations 2:11,19 4:3,10
but thou
Genesis 21:10 Exodus 1:22 Numbers 19:16 Jeremiah 9:21,22 22:19
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.
and saw
Exodus 2:24,25 3:7,8 Acts 7:34
polluted
or, trodden under foot.
Isaiah 14:19 51:23 Micah 7:10 Matthew 5:13 Hebrews 10:29 Revelation 14:20
Live
20:5-10 Exodus 19:4-6 Deuteronomy 9:4 Psalms 105:10-15,26-37 John 5:25 Romans 9:15 Ephesians 2:4,5 Titus 3:3-7
I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
caused, etc
Heb. made thee a million.
Genesis 22:17 Exodus 1:7 12:37 Acts 7:17
excellent ornaments
Heb. ornament of ornaments.
10-13,16 Exodus 3:22 Deuteronomy 1:10 4:8 32:10-14 33:26-29 Nehemiah 9:18-25 Psalms 135:4 147:20 148:14 149:2-4 Isaiah 61:10 62:3
whereas
22 Job 1:21 Song of Solomon 4:5 Hosea 2:3,9,10 Revelation 3:17,18
Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
thy time
6 Deuteronomy 7:6-8 Ruth 3:9 1 Samuel 12:22 Isaiah 41:8,9 43:4 63:7-9 Jeremiah 2:2,3 Jeremiah 31:3 Hosea 11:1 Malachi 1:2 Romans 5:8 9:10-13
and I
I sware
20:5,6 Exodus 19:4-8 24:1-8 32:13 Deuteronomy 4:31 Jeremiah 2:2,3 31:32 Hosea 2:18-20
Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
washed
4 36:25 Psalms 51:7 Isaiah 4:4 John 13:8-10 1 Corinthians 6:11 10:2 Hebrews 9:10-14 1 John 5:8 Revelation 1:5,6
blood
Heb. bloods.
anointed
Psalms 23:5 2 Corinthians 1:21 1 John 2:20,27
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
clothed
7 Psalms 45:13,14 Isaiah 61:3,10 Luke 15:22 Revelation 21:2
broidered
13,18 Exodus 28:5 1 Peter 3:3,4
badgers' skin
I girded
Exodus 39:27,28 Revelation 7:9-14 19:8
covered
Genesis 41:42 *marg:; Proverbs 31:22 Revelation 18:12
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
I put
a chain
Genesis 41:42 Proverbs 1:9 4:9 Song of Solomon 1:10 4:9 Isaiah 3:19 Daniel 5:7,16,29
forehead
Heb. nose.
Genesis 24:22 *marg:; Isaiah 3:21
ear-rings
Genesis 35:4 Exodus 32:2 35:22 Numbers 31:50 Judges 8:24 Job 42:11 Proverbs 25:12 Hosea 2:13
and a
Leviticus 8:9 Esther 2:17 Isaiah 28:5 Lamentations 5:16 Revelation 2:10 4:4,10
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.
thou didst
19 Deuteronomy 8:8 32:13,14 Psalms 45:13,14 81:16 147:14 Hosea 2:5
and thou wast
14,15 Psalms 48:2 50:2 Isaiah 64:11 Jeremiah 13:20
and thou didst
Genesis 17:6 1 Samuel 12:12 2 Samuel 8:15 1 Kings 4:21 Ezra 4:20 5:11 Psalms 50:2 Lamentations 2:15
And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.
thy renown
Deuteronomy 4:6-8,32-38 Joshua 2:9-11 9:6-9 1 Kings 10:1-13,24 2 Chronicles 2:11,12 2 Chronicles 9:23 Lamentations 2:15
through
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.
thou didst
33:13 Deuteronomy 32:15 Isaiah 48:1 Jeremiah 7:4 Micah 3:11 Zephaniah 3:11 Matthew 3:9
and playedst
20:8 23:3,8,11,12-21 Exodus 32:6-35 Numbers 25:1,2 Judges 2:12 3:6 10:6 1 Kings 11:5 12:28 2 Kings 17:7 21:3 Psalms 106:35 Isaiah 1:21 57:8 Jeremiah 2:20 Jeremiah 3:1 7:4 Hosea 1:2 4:10 Revelation 17:5
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
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.
7:20 2 Kings 23:7 2 Chronicles 28:24 Hosea 2:8
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,
hast also
7:19 23:14-21 Exodus 32:1-4 Hosea 2:13 10:1
men
Heb. a male. and didst.
Isaiah 44:19,20 57:7,8 Jeremiah 2:27,28 3:9
My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.
meat
13 Deuteronomy 32:14-17 Hosea 2:8-13
a sweet savour
Heb. a savour of rest.
Genesis 8:21 *marg:
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. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
thy sons
21 23:4 Genesis 17:7 Exodus 13:2,12 Deuteronomy 29:11,12
and these
20:26,31 23:37,39 2 Kings 16:3 2 Chronicles 33:6 Psalms 106:37,38 Isaiah 57:5 Jeremiah 7:31 32:35 Micah 6:7
be devoured
Heb. devour. Is this.
That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
my children
to pass
Leviticus 18:21 20:1-5 Deuteronomy 18:10 2 Kings 17:17 21:6 23:10
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
3-7,43,60-63 Jeremiah 2:2 Hosea 2:3 11:1
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
woe
2:10 13:3,18 24:6 Jeremiah 13:27 Zephaniah 3:1 Matthew 11:21 23:13-29 Revelation 8:13 Revelation 12:12
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
thou hast
31,39 20:28,29 2 Kings 21:3-7 23:5-7,11,12 2 Chronicles 33:3-7
eminent place
or, brothel house. and hast.
Leviticus 26:30 Psalms 78:58 Isaiah 57:5,7 Jeremiah 2:20 3:2 17:3
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.
at every
31 Genesis 38:14,21 Proverbs 9:14,15 Isaiah 3:9 Jeremiah 2:23,24 3:2 6:15
and hast made
23:9,10,32 Revelation 17:1-5,12,13,16
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
with the
8:10,14 20:7,8 23:3,8,19-21 Exodus 32:4 Deuteronomy 29:16,17 Joshua 24:14 Isaiah 30:21
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.
I have
and have
Deuteronomy 28:48-57 Isaiah 3:1 Hosea 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 Psalms 106:41 Jeremiah 34:21 Revelation 17:16
daughters
or, cities.
2 Kings 24:2 2 Chronicles 28:18,19 Isaiah 9:12
which
Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
23:5-9,12-21 Judges 10:6 2 Kings 16:7,10-18 21:11 2 Chronicles 28:23 Jeremiah 2:18,36 Hosea 10:6
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
in the land
13:14-23 Judges 2:12-19 2 Kings 21:9
unto
How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
weak
Proverbs 9:13 Isaiah 1:3 Jeremiah 2:12,13 4:22
the work
Judges 16:15,16 Proverbs 7:11-13,21 Isaiah 3:9 Jeremiah 3:3 Revelation 17:1-6
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 an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
In that thou buildest thine
or, In thy daughters is thine, etc.
makest
in that thou scornest
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
8 23:37,45 Jeremiah 2:25,28 3:1,8,9,20 Hosea 2:2 3:1 2 Corinthians 11:2,3
They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
give
Genesis 38:16-18 Deuteronomy 23:17,18 Hosea 2:12 Joel 3:3 Micah 1:7 Luke 15:30
but thou
Isaiah 30:3,6,7 57:9 Hosea 8:9,10
hirest
Heb. bribest.
Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
O harlot
Isaiah 1:21 23:15,16 Jeremiah 3:1,6-8 Hosea 2:5 Nahum 3:4 John 4:10,18 Revelation 17:5
hear
13:2 20:47 34:7 1 Kings 22:19 Isaiah 1:10 28:14 Hosea 4:1 Amos 7:16
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;
Because
15-22 22:15 23:8 24:13 36:25 Lamentations 1:9 Zephaniah 3:1
and thy
23:10,18,29 Genesis 3:7,10,11 Psalms 139:11,12 Jeremiah 13:22-26 Revelation 3:18
and by
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 even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
23:9,10,22-30 Jeremiah 4:30 13:22,26 22:20 Lamentations 1:8,19 Hosea 2:3,10 Hosea 8:10 Nahum 3:5,6 Revelation 17:16
And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
as women
Heb. with judgments of women, etc.
40 23:45-47 Genesis 38:11,24 Leviticus 20:10 Deuteronomy 22:22-24 Matthew 1:18,19 John 8:3-5
shed
20,21,36 Genesis 9:6 Exodus 21:12 Numbers 35:31 Psalms 79:3-5 Jeremiah 18:21 Zephaniah 1:17 Nahum 1:2 Revelation 16:6
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.
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
shall strip
10-20 23:26,29 Isaiah 3:16-24 Hosea 2:3,9-13
thy fair jewels
Heb. instruments of thine ornament.
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
shall also
and thrust
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.
burn
Deuteronomy 13:16 2 Kings 25:9 Jeremiah 39:8 52:13 Micah 3:12
and execute
5:8 23:10,48 Deuteronomy 13:11 22:21,24 Job 34:26
and I
23:27 37:23 Isaiah 1:25,26 2:18 27:9 Hosea 2:6-17 Micah 5:10-14 Zechariah 13:2 1 Timothy 5:20
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
will I
5:13 21:17 2 Samuel 21:14 Isaiah 1:24 Zechariah 6:8
and will
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
thou hast
22 Psalms 78:42 106:13 Jeremiah 2:32
but hast
6:9 Deuteronomy 32:21 Psalms 78:40 95:10 Isaiah 63:10 Amos 2:13 Acts 7:51 Ephesians 4:30
I also
7:3,4,8,9 9:10 11:21 22:31 Romans 2:8,9
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
every
As is
3,45 1 Kings 21:16 2 Kings 17:11,15 21:9 Ezra 9:1 Psalms 106:35-38
Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
that loatheth
8,15,20,21 23:37-39 Deuteronomy 5:9 12:31 Isaiah 1:4 *marg:; Zechariah 11:8 Romans 1:30,31
your mother
Verse 46
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
elder
51 23:4,11,31-33 Jeremiah 3:8-11 Micah 1:5
thy younger sister
Heb. thy sister lesser than thou.
48,49,53-56,61 Genesis 13:11-13 18:20-33 19:24,25 Deuteronomy 29:23 32:32 Isaiah 1:9,10 Jeremiah 23:14 Lamentations 4:6 *marg:; Luke 17:28-30 2 Peter 2:6 Jude 1:7 Revelation 11:8
her daughters
27 *marg:; 26:6 Genesis 14:8 19:29 Hosea 11:8
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
as if that were a very little thing
or, that was loathed as a small thing.
thou wast
48,51 5:6,7 2 Kings 21:9,16 John 15:21,22 1 Corinthians 5:1
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Matthew 10:15 11:24 Mark 6:11 Luke 10:12 Acts 7:52
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
pride
28:2,9,17 29:3 Genesis 19:9 Psalms 138:6 Proverbs 16:5,18 18:12 21:4 Isaiah 3:9 Isaiah 16:6 Daniel 4:30,37 5:23 Obadiah 1:3 1 Peter 5:5
fulness
Genesis 13:10 18:20 Deuteronomy 32:15 Isaiah 22:13,14 Amos 6:3-6 Luke 12:16-20 Luke 16:19 17:28 21:34
neither
18:12 Proverbs 21:13 Isaiah 3:14,15 Amos 5:11,12 8:4-6 Micah 3:2-4 Luke 16:20,21
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
and committed
Genesis 13:13 18:20 19:5 Leviticus 18:22 Deuteronomy 23:17 2 Kings 23:7 Proverbs 16:18 Proverbs 18:12 Romans 1:26,27 Jude 1:7
therefore
Genesis 19:24 Deuteronomy 29:23 Job 18:15 Isaiah 13:19 Jeremiah 20:16 49:18 50:40 Lamentations 4:6 Amos 4:11 Zephaniah 2:9 2 Peter 2:6 Revelation 18:9
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Samaria
justified
Jeremiah 3:8-11 Matthew 12:41,42
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
which hast
56 Matthew 7:1-5 Luke 6:37 Romans 2:1,10,26,27
bear thine
54,63 36:6,7,15,31,32 39:26 44:13 Jeremiah 23:40 31:19 51:51 Hosea 10:6 Romans 1:32 6:21
they are more
Genesis 38:26 1 Samuel 24:17 1 Kings 2:32
When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
bring
60,61 29:14 39:25 Job 42:10 Psalms 14:7 85:1 126:1 Isaiah 1:9 Jeremiah 20:16 31:23 48:47 49:6,39 Joel 3:1
in the midst
Isaiah 19:24,25 Jeremiah 12:16 Romans 11:23-31
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
thou mayest
in that
When thy 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.
then
For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
was not
Isaiah 65:5 Zephaniah 3:11 Luke 15:28-30 18:11
mentioned
Heb. for a report, or a hearing. pride. Heb. prides, or excellencies.
Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.
thy wickedness
36,37 21:24 23:18,19 Psalms 50:21 Lamentations 4:22 Hosea 2:10 7:1 1 Corinthians 4:5
reproach
2 Kings 16:5-7 2 Chronicles 28:5,6,18-23 Isaiah 7:1 14:28
Syria
Heb. Aram.
the daughters
despise
or, spoil.
Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.
hast
23:49 Genesis 4:13 Lamentations 5:7
borne
Heb. borne them.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
I will
7:4,8,9 14:4 Isaiah 3:11 Jeremiah 2:19 Matthew 7:1,2 Romans 2:8,9
which
17:13-16 Exodus 24:1-8 Deuteronomy 29:10-15,25 2 Chronicles 34:31,32 Isaiah 24:5 Jeremiah 22:9 31:32
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
I will remember
8 Leviticus 26:42,45 Nehemiah 1:5-11 Psalms 105:8 106:45 Jeremiah 2:2 33:20-26 Hosea 2:15 Luke 1:72
I will establish
37:26,27 Isaiah 55:3 2 Samuel 23:5 Jeremiah 31:31-34 32:38-41 50:5 Hosea 2:19,20 Hebrews 8:10 12:24 13:20
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.
remember
63 20:43 36:31,32 Job 42:5,6 Psalms 119:59 Jeremiah 31:18-20 50:4,5
when
53-55 Song of Solomon 8:8,9 Isaiah 2:2-5 11:9,10 Hosea 1:9-11 Romans 11:11 Romans 15:8,9,16 Galatians 4:26,27 Ephesians 2:12-14 3:6
I will
Isaiah 49:18-23 54:1,2 60:4 66:7-12 Galatians 4:26-31
but not
Jeremiah 31:31-40 John 15:16 Hebrews 8:13
And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
I will
and thou
6:7 39:22 Jeremiah 24:7 Joel 3:17
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
remember
61 36:31,32 Ezra 9:6 Daniel 9:7,8
and never
Job 40:4,5 Psalms 39:9 Lamentations 3:39 Romans 2:1 3:19,27 9:19,20