Ezekiel 16:20-41 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 16:15-34

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. This wickedness of theirs is here represented by the lewd and scandalous conversation of that beautiful maid which was rescued from ruin, brought up and well provided for by a kind friend and benefactor, that had been in all respects as a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 16:35-43

Adultery was by the law of Moses made a capital crime. This notorious adulteress, the criminal at the bar, being in the foregoing verses found guilty, here has sentence passed upon her. It is ushered in with solemnity, Ezek. 16:35. The prophet, as the judge, in God's name calls to her, O harlot! hear the word of the Lord. Our Saviour preached to harlots, for their conversion, to bring them into the kingdom of God, not as the prophet here, to expel them out of it. Note, An apostate church is a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:20

Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters ,.... Their own flesh and blood; which were more than to take their clothes, and cover their idols with them, and their food, and set it before them to part with them was much, but to part with these, and that in such a shocking manner as after mentioned, was so irrational and unnatural, as well as impious and wicked, as is not to be paralleled; and what increased their wickedness was, that these were not only their own, but the Lord's: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:21

That thou hast slain my children ,.... By creation, as all born into the world are; and by national adoption, as all the Jewish children were; and particularly the firstborn were eminently his, and which are here designed, as Jarchi interprets it; for they were the children that were slain and sacrificed to Molech; see Ezekiel 20:26 ; and delivered, them to cause them to pass through the fire for them ? for the sake of idols, for the worship of them; this they did before they were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:22

And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms ,.... Or idolatries, which were abominable to God, and were many; of which that just mentioned was not one of the least: thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth ; the destitute and forlorn condition then in, and what favours were then bestowed: when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood ; See Gill on Ezekiel 16:6 ; See Gill on Ezekiel 16:7 ; which is mentioned to upbraid the Jews with their ingratitude;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:23

And it came to pass after all thy wickedness ,.... This refers either to what goes before, so Kimchi; and the sense is, it shall be again as it was at first, after and because of all the above wickedness committed, thou shalt be left naked and bare, and destitute of all that is good: or rather to what follows in the next clause; and the meaning is, to all this wickedness before mentioned, which was so great that it might be thought nothing more could be added to it; and yet the following... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:24

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place ,.... Or a "brothel" F11 גב οικημα πορνικον , Sept. "lupanar", V. L. "prostibulum", so some in Starckius. ; and so the Septuagint version, "a whoring house"; not content to commit idolatry privately, they built a public place for idolatrous worship. The Targum renders it, "altar", The word has the signification of a pit or ditch; with which compare Proverbs 22:14 ; and hast made thee an high place in every street ; of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:25

Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way ,.... Where two or more ways, or two or more streets, met; and so was most conspicuous, and was seen from different parts; which shows the same as before: and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred ; by the Lord himself, Who otherwise greatly desires and delights in the beauty of his people, when they worship him, Psalm 45:11 ; and by all good men, and such as fear the Lord, who cannot but abhor such idolatrous practices, and those... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:26

Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians ,.... By entering into leagues and alliances with them, and seeking to them for help and assistance against their enemies; from whose bondage they had formerly been delivered, and whose society they were cautioned against; and yet they forsook the Lord, and joined themselves to them by solemn covenant; and not only so, but fell into the worship of their idols, who were a people of all others the most superstitious, and given to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:27

Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee ,.... His chastising and correcting hand, to show his resentment at their sins, and bring them to a sense of them, and repentance for them: and have diminished thine ordinary food ; their stated allowances, the common mercies and blessings of life they had been indulged with, but now were lessened; and particularly a famine was brought upon them, as well as they were deprived of other favours for their sins; God dealing with them... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 16:15-34

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 16:35-43

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 16:27

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