"It is my silver and my gold, though I have given it to thee." III. A nation that in its beginning understood its dependency upon God; a nation that was framed with a Constitution guaranteeing the freedom of worship of the people, a freedom to worship; a nation that placed upon its coins, "In God we trust"; A nation that placed within its national anthem the recognition of God and in its pledge to the flag acknowledged it to be one nation under God. The washing of our lives through the blood of Jesus Christ. Note: This charm is recorded as part of folk lore and is not meant to be a substitution to professional Medical Assistance. Ive never heard much history on the belief, though, other than to just KNOW that it works. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. It was because of this kind of an environment they felt the bravado to parade publicly. Note, Spiritual lusts, those of the mind, such as theirs after idols were, are often as strong and impetuous as any carnal lusts are. 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!' 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." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Ezekiel 16:6 Context The man then lovingly bathed her, clothed her, married her, and made her so beautiful that her fame spread to other nations. Ezekiel 16 is an extended metaphor containing an oracle of judgement and concludes with a promise of a future everlasting covenant (v. 59-63), which is the new covenant that Jesus inaugurated in his death and resurrection. Janet, . Note, It should be an effectual check to our pride and sensuality to consider what we are and how much we are beholden to the free grace of God. Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. So this is God's indictment against Sodom. Genesis 31:35 Verse Concepts The Lord in looking at it looks behind it, and He said it was: pride, [it was] fullness of bread [prosperity], the abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters, and neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy ( Ezekiel 16:49 ). Bibliographical InformationHenry, Matthew. But, of course, a city is always made up of inhabitants. To someone who has never seen this happen, it sounds a little spooky or irreligious. 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. He was literally dumping bits of earth he had ordered online into his smoothies and recipes. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! Because it is a shameful scandalous sin for those that have joined themselves to the Lord to join themselves to an idol. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. They did all they could to seduce and debauch others, and to spread the contagion, by making the temptations to idolatry as strong as possibly they could; and hereby the ringleaders in idolatry did but make themselves vile, and even those that had courted them to it, finding themselves outdone by them, began to be surfeited with the abundance and violence of their idolatries: Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, even by those that had admired it. 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. But I'm the one that rescued you and saved you and put My beauty on you. Now, these are the conditions that produced this blatant demonstration of these homosexual men. But it was a soft leather that was usually dyed purple and was the favorite of the young girls for their slippers. She had not been washed or clothed since birth. There is nothing that makes us spiritually acceptable. Probably not very many. "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'. Access 50+ premium resources. Hi Ann! Ezekiel 16:6 (Recite to Stop Bleeding) / 24" x 47.5". Note, Abundance of young people are ruined by pride and particularly pride in their beauty. Yet that was not the worst of it: it was an irreparable wrong to God himself, who challenged a special property in their children more than in their gold and silver and their meat: They are my children (Ezekiel 16:21; Ezekiel 16:21), the sons and daughters which thou hast borne unto me,Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:20. Whichever way the world was flowing, that's the way you were going. 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. It is a verse that people have used for years when someone is bleeding. And they turned against Him. The Bible inspires quite a few of the verbal charms used in Ozark Folk Magic, some of which are exactly the same as those used by the Pennsylvania Dutch Brauchers. And here are God's people committing this horrible sacrilege. 1706.return to 'Jump List'. 1. 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. The Targum joins this with the preceding clause, ""and playedst the harlot" with them, as is not right and fit''. And they were going to grab him, and the angels said to Lot, "Stand back." And as God works in us by His Spirit, and as we are changed into the image of Christ, God looks at us and says, "Oh, you're perfectly beautiful." So glad you hit publish! For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, 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. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 6And 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!. It seems to me that the Prophet intends this; for when he adds, that they committed fornication with them, he means doubtless with their lovers, and all besides; but this is not the sense of the words , bemoth telaoth. Throughout the world they were talking of the beauty of the nation of the people. You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. The Deserted Newborn2. Now, this is all a foreshadowing of the relationship of Jesus Christ to His church. You've been worse than Samaria and worse than Sodom. Kimchi's note is, "the high places shall not come as these; as if it was said these shall not be in futurity; and there shall not be a man or a people that shall make like these for multitudes;''. My daddy and his people were raised in the old ways so I am very interested and wish I had listened when I had the chance. Ezekiel 16:6 Menus. 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. Solomon admitted idolatry, to gratify his wives and their relations. 33 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. Now, of course, the people of Israel had turned to all of these pagan gods, but worst of all, they began to follow the practice of the pagans of the land in offering their own children as sacrifices unto the pagan gods. 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. This goes back to the early settling of the states and things brought . When he says high places with different colors, some refer this to ornaments; yet it may be taken in a bad sense, since those high places were stained, so that they could be distinguished from chase and modest dwellings; as if he had said, If you had been a modest woman, you had remained in retirement at home, as honest matrons do, and you would not have done anything to attract men to thee; but you has erected thy high places, like conspicuous houses of ill fame, as if a female, forgetful of modesty and delicacy, should set up a sign, and show her house to be open to all, and especially to her own adulterers. KJV: King James Version. However, if the person is not present, the charm is used by speaking the persons name before the recitation of the charm, during each recitation, while walking towards the east. And of thy garments you did take, and you decked your high places with divers colors, and you played the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. New King James Version (NKJV) 6. Or, "I gave you shoes of badger skins." That is, they turned away from God and they began to worship every god of all of the people that were round about. Ezekiel 16:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful . He had said to Abraham, I will be a God to thee and to thy seed; they had the seal of the covenant in their flesh from eight days old; they were to bear God's name, and keep up his church; to murder them was in the highest degree inhuman, but to murder them in honour of an idol was in the highest degree impious. And you've turned after every god, played the harlot, poured out your fornications on every one that passed by. 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. The Egyptians. 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. So Israel has so turned away from the worship of God in their worshipping of these false gods. 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. A day for pleasure, a day for seeking after the flesh, a day of attempting to satiate the flesh in pleasure. If there is a man who lies with a menstruous woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow, and she has exposed the flow of her blood; thus both of them shall be cut off from among their people. "I shod thee with badger skins." 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. It was like an unwanted baby girl thrown out at birth and left to die (16:1-5). New International Version (NIV). 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. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. The queen of Sheba came from the south to see and to hear. The only way that I can be accepted before God is to be clothed in that linen, pure and clean, which He has given to me. Start your free trial today! It was believed (and still is) that certain persons, known as bloodstoppers, could halt bleeding in humans and animals by supernatural means. And that's, of course, the whole thing, the rationale, the justification, "Well, you know, every man has a freedom to express himself however he desires, and no one has the right to dictate their moral standards on other people, you know.". 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. 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. They broke the covenant and they gave themselves over to every god and idol and abomination. - Webster's BibleWhen I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, [Though you are] in your blood, live.- World English BibleAnd I do pass over by thee, And I see thee trodden down in thy blood, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live.- Youngs Literal Bible And when I passed by thee, and saw thee wallowing in thy blood, I said unto thee: In thy blood, live; yea, I said unto thee: In thy blood, live;- Jewish Publication Society Bible. I know this sounds crazy, but they believed in healing powers of the earth. You've taken those things that I have given and you've profaned them. In this way they understand that the insane lust of the people is condemned, as if it were a prodigy, such as was never seen, nor yet to be expected. The description given in these verses refers to the preservation and marvellous multiplication of Israel in Egypt, where the sons of Israel grew into a nation under the divine blessing. How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way [or every street], and you make your high place in every street; and you have not been as the harlot, in that thou hast scornest hire ( Ezekiel 16:28-31 ); You're even worse than a prostitute. A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts repeat. "And I girded thee about with fine linen." 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. To someone who DOES believe, you simply cant take that away from them. This is insisted upon here, and often elsewhere, as one of the worst instances of their idolatry, as indeed there was none in which the devil triumphed so much over the children of men, both their natural reason and their natural affection, as in this (see Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:5; Jeremiah 32:35): Thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, and not only made them to pass through the fire, or between two fires, in token of their being dedicated to Moloch, but thou hast sacrificed them to be devoured,Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:20. 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. mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. 7I 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. Just because it seems out of sorts, doesnt mean I can discard it and wipe it from my very own slate. Or it may refer to the inroads which the Philistines made upon the south of Judah in the reign of Ahaz, by which it was weakened and impoverished, and which was the beginning of sorrows to them (2 Chronicles 28:18); but they did not take warning by those judgments, and therefore were justly abandoned to ruin at last. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! But those that forsake this living fountain for broken cisterns will find themselves soon surfeited, but never satisfied; they have soon enough of the gods they have, and are still enquiring after more. "Complete Commentary on Ezekiel 16:16". The ancient nation Israel began life in Canaan as a hated people of mixed blood and mixed culture. The Targum is, "thou hast made for thyself high places covered with idols": and so the Septuagint version renders it, "idols sewed together". 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. He is the Father of spirits, and rational souls are in a particular manner his; and therefore the taking away of life, human life, unjustly, is a high affront to the God of life. What were the aggravations of this sin. The high places were the places of pagan worship where every kind of licentious practice went on in their worship of these pagan gods. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, 21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? The old man supposedly hobbled out onto his front porch when he saw the car pull up and "took the scene in at once - the wan little boy holding a bloody rag to his nose, the distraught mother. 3. Before he brought such a famine upon them as broke the staff of bread he diminished their ordinary food, but them short before he cut them off. Ezekiel 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.Biblical scholar R. E. Clements calls this chapter "an Old Testament parable of the prodigal daughter", describing a shocking illustration of ungrateful . He said the baby was too clean and needed what was in the dirt to survive. The unfaithfulness of Jerusalem (16:1-43). Save 15% on BibleGateway+ with code SPRINGSTUDY15. 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. The ancient nation Israel began life in Canaan as a hated people of mixed blood and mixed culture. 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. However, Im certainly not putting this up for cause to debate. 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. And as God works in us by His Spirit, the purpose is to conform us into the image of Christ. 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. In this chapter Ezekiel describes Judahs relationship with Yahweh by means of a long and colourful illustration. They not only worshipped the true God by images, as the ten tribes by the calves at Dan and Bethel, but they worshipped false gods, Baal and Moloch, and all the senseless rabble of the pagan deities. Then a passing traveller (Yahweh) picked the baby up and gave it a chance to live. No, it certainly doesnt sound crazy, thats actually a Native American thing, if Im not mistaken. Polluted - wallowing, "treading upon oneself.". Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathe their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite. Just the fashions of the world. Gittin. So I hit publish and, well, here we are . They were ready to close with every temptation of this kind, though ever so absurd. Men began to look for things to fill in their idle time. 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. And I washed thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. In a matter of hours, the bleeding stops, after which the process of inflammation begins, which is a complex, multi-stage reaction of the body. View more Ezekiel 16:6 meaning, interpretation, and commentary "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." Their idolatry was the great provoking sin that they were guilty of; it began in the latter end of Solomon's time (for from Samuel's till then I do not remember that we read any thing of it), and thenceforward continued more or less the crying sin of that nation till the captivity; and, though it now and then met with some check from the reforming kings, yet it was never totally suppressed, and for the most part appeared to a high degree impudent and barefaced. They all heard of your beauty." 4. Ezekiel 16:6. And they said, "Get out of here. 4. Ezekiel 16:6. True beauty of a person is in the character of their lives and the fruit of the Spirit as God places His glorious jewels of meekness, temperance, longsuffering, goodness, love, joy, peace. That God is just speaking here of the horrible relationship that they would forsake God who had done so much for them. Isaiah 57:8), or perhaps full human figures are in view. 2. In fact, her lust was so great that it was abnormal. 8 " 'And I passed by you . Ezekiel 16 - The Harlot Wife of Yahweh. They forget how that God watched over the early colonists. As we go further in Ezekiel, we're going to find that a new there is an earthquake that is going to take place in Jerusalem that is going to create a new valley and is going to unlock an underground river, a spring that will begin to flow from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea with such a supply of water that when it comes into the Dead Sea, the waters of the Dead Sea will be healed and there will be all manner of fish and all there in the Dead Sea. In Revelation 19 , verse Ezekiel 16:6 , He speaks about, "And the bride hath made herself ready and she was adorned in fine linen, pure and clean." "Henry's Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible". Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, but you were naked and bare. This is referred to as the blood verse. Yes, I said to you {while you were} in your blood, 'Live! I did happen to read about it on a website called Appalachian History, where it is called The Blood Verse and attributed to Hillbilly Witchcraft. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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. Entering into that covenant relationship where God claimed them as His own, as His bride. Share Read Full Chapter. Now God speaks of His work for the nation Israel, and that work of God's Spirit in making them great, making them beautiful, making them desirable, perfect in beauty. And you were exceedingly beautiful and you prospered into a kingdom. Thus Mr. George Herbert long since foretold, or feared at least. Today my gums were bleeding so I recited the verse, and I stopped bleeding. You were nothing; you were perishing. 26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. So also the Prophet says that the Jews, when they gave themselves up to fornication, made high places for themselves. We have phlegmatic, and we have different types of temperaments, and none of them really have any acceptance before God. But is whoredom, is spiritual whoredom, a small matter? Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations ( Ezekiel 16:1-2 ). 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 when I passed by thee Alluding to a traveller passing by where an infant lies, exposed, and looks upon it, and takes it up; or it may be to Pharaoh's daughter walking by the river side, when she spied the ark in which Moses was, and ordered it to be taken up, and so saved his life: and saw thee in thine own blood; keeping up the simile of a newborn infant, that has nothing . 2. No wonder God destroyed them. He's a sinner, he knows he's a sinner, and he knows he needs help. ", I saidIn contrast to Israel's helplessness stands God's omnipotent word of grace which bids the outcast little one "live.". Used by permission.
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