Ezekiel 16:26-29 NIV

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:29

Verse 29 Here the Prophet teaches that the Jews were immoderate in their desires, just as if a woman was not satisfied with two or three followers, should wantonly crave after many lovers: such, says the Prophet, was the Jews’ licentiousness. As to his saying, over the land of Canaan in Chaldaea, some think it means, that they heaped up the impure rites of all the nations, and not only defiled themselves with the ancient. idolatries of the nations of Canaan, but imitated the Chaldaeans in their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:1-63

The thought that underlies Ezekiel's parable, that Israel was the bride of Jehovah, and that her sin was that of the adulterous wife, was sufficiently familiar. Isaiah ( Isaiah 1:21 ) had spoken of the "faithful city that had become a harlot." Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 2:2 ) had represented Jehovah as remembering "the kindness of her youth, the love of her espousals." What is characteristic of Ezekiel's treatment of that image is that he does not recognize any period in which Israel had been... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:15-34

A picture of flagrant apostasy from God. "But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown," etc. The prophet row passes from what God had done for his people Israel to set forth how they had requited him. He had shown how, under his fostering care, the outcast child had grown into a beautiful maiden, whom he had espoused and arrayed in robes and ornaments of beauty, until she had become renowned amongst the nations. Now he exhibits the apostasy of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:15-59

Inexcusable infidelity. Universal consent accounts that woman vile who, married to a kind and honourable husband, in order to gratify her own unchastened desires, commits adultery with her neighbours and acquaintances, and expends her husband's substance in rewarding her numerous and profligate admirers. The guilt of Jerusalem must indeed have been great if it could only be adequately set forth under the similitude of guilt so flagrant and abominable as that described in this most... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:20-34

Idolatry is spiritual adultery. Imagery borrowed from nature and human society, to set forth Israel's sin, is at the best feeble and imperfect. If it is possible for God to make some impression on man's guilty conscience, he will do it. What is more abominable among men than adultery? Yet connivance with idolatry is a sin blacker yet. It is adultery, ingratitude, robbery, treason, rolled into one crime! I. MARK THE ROOTS OF THIS SIN . 1 . The first root mentioned is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:26

With the Egyptians. The words point to political and commercial alliances, in themselves a whoredom ( Isaiah 23:17 ; Nahum 3:4 ), such as Zedekiah, like some of his predecessors, had trusted in, as well as to the adoption of Egyptian worship, such as we have seen in Ezekiel 8:10 , the one leading naturally to the other. The words, great of flesh, may point, as we interpret the parable, to the supposed strength of the stout and stalwart soldiers, the chariots and horses of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:27

Have diminished thine ordinary food . The husband was bound to provide his wife with food and raiment ( Exodus 21:10 ). Here his first discipline for the unfaithful wife is to place her on a short allowance. Jehovah, to interpret the parable, had placed Israel under the discipline of famine and other visitations that involved a loss of wealth and power. Hosea 2:9 , Hosea 2:10 supplies a striking parallel. The daughters of the Philistines. So in verse 57. The phrase, like "the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:28

With the Assyrians . Here also the words include political alliances like that of Ahaz with Tiglath-Pileser ( 2 Kings 16:7 ), as well as the adoption of idolatrous worship. The latter probably followed under Ahaz as a consequence of the former, and afterwards spread through the influence of the Assyrian colonists—each nation with its own deities—in Samaria ( 2 Kings 17:24 ). The culture of the queen of heaven ( Jeremiah 44:17 ), i.e. of the Assyrian Ishtar, may have had this origin. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:29

In the land of Canaan, etc. The words at first seem to give the nearest and furthest points of the intercourse of Israel with foreign nations. I incline, however, with Smend and the margin of the Revised Version, to take Canaan in its secondary sense as "the land of traffick," Chaldea being in apposition with it (comp. Isaiah 23:8 ; Hosea 12:7 ; Zephaniah 1:11 , for a like use of the Hebrew word). Chaldea thus comes in its right place as closing the list of the nations with whom the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 16:26

Egyptian idolatry, a worship of the powers of nature, was eminently sensual. The idolatry here spoken of is not so much that which Israel brought with them from Egypt, as the idolatry introduced in the time of Solomon and Rehoboam. read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 16:29

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:1-63

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:15-34

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:15-59

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:20-34

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:26

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 16:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 16:26

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