The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:5
For to the loathing of thy person, read, with the Revised Version , for that thy person was abhorred. read more
에스겔 16:1-5 Krv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 16:1
Idolatry is frequently represented by the prophets under the figure of a wife’s unfaithfulness to her husband. This image is here so portrayed, as to exhibit the aggravation of Israel’s guilt by reason of her origin and early history. The original abode of the progenitors of the race was the land of Canaan, defiled with idolatry and moral corruption. Israel itself was like a child born in a polluted land, abandoned from its birth, left by its parents in the most utter neglect to the chance... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 16:3
Birth - See the margin; the word represents “origin” under the figure of “cutting out stone from a quarry” (compareIsaiah 51:1; Isaiah 51:1).An Amorite - the Amorite, a term denoting the whole people. The Amorites, being a principal branch of the Canaanites, are often taken to represent the whole stock Genesis 15:16; 2 Kings 21:11.An Hittite - Compare Genesis 26:34. The main idea is that the Israelites by their doings proved themselves to be the very children of the idolatrous nations who once... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 16:4
To supple thee - i. e., to cleanse thee. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 16:5
To the lothing of thy person - Or, “so abhorred was thy person.” read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 16:2
Ezekiel 16:2. Cause Jerusalem to know her abominations Her foul sins and multiplied transgressions, especially her idolatries, or spiritual adulteries, and unexampled folly in her lewdness. “This might probably be done by way of letter, as Jeremiah signified the will of God to the captives at Babylon. God here particularly upbraids Jerusalem for her iniquities, because it was the place he had chosen for his peculiar residence; and yet the inhabitants had defiled that very place, nay, and... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 16:3
Ezekiel 16:3. Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem Unto the whole race of the Jews, and especially to the natives and inhabitants of that proud city, who thought it a singular privilege to be born or to live there, counting it a more holy place than the rest of the land of Canaan. Thy birth and thy nativity The LXX. render it, Η ριζα σου και η γενεσις , thy root and thy generation, and so also the Vulgate. The word rendered birth, or root, however, מכרתין , seems rather to mean, ... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 16:4
Ezekiel 16:4. As for thy nativity, &c. “Jerusalem is here represented under the image of an exposed infant, whom God preserved from destruction, brought up, espoused and exalted in sovereignty. But she proved faithless and abandoned; and therefore God threatens her with severe vengeance, but graciously promises that afterward he would fulfil his early covenant with her. The allegory is easily understood; and has much force, liveliness, and vehemence of eloquent amplification. The images... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 16:5
Ezekiel 16:5. None eye pitied thee, &c. The cruelty of the Egyptians, who ought, in gratitude for the services they had received from Joseph, to have been as parents to the Israelites, seems to be here hinted at. Thou wast cast out in the open field Thou wast exposed to perish. It was the custom to lay those children, whom their parents would not take the trouble of bringing up, in the open fields, and leave them there. To the loathing of thy person Hebrew, כגעל נפשׁן , to the... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:4
As for thy nativity, etc. We ask, as we interpret the parable, of what period in the history of Israel Ezekiel speaks. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are ignored by him, and he starts from a time of misery and shame. It is obvious that the only period which corresponds to this is that of the sojourn of Israel as an oppressed and degraded people in the land of Goshen. He paints, with a Dantesque minuteness, the picture of a child just born, abandoned by its mother and neglected by all others from... read more