
Text -- Ezekiel 16:16 (NET)




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Those costly, royal robes, the very wedding clothes.

With those beautiful clothes I put upon thee.

Wesley: Eze 16:16 - -- As there was none before her that had done thus, so shall there be none to follow her in these things.
As there was none before her that had done thus, so shall there be none to follow her in these things.
JFB: Eze 16:16 - -- Or, "didst make . . . of divers colors" [FAIRBAIRN]; the metaphor and the literal are here mixed. The high places whereon they sacrificed to Astarte a...
Or, "didst make . . . of divers colors" [FAIRBAIRN]; the metaphor and the literal are here mixed. The high places whereon they sacrificed to Astarte are here compared to tents of divers colors, which an impudent harlot would spread to show her house was open to all [CALVIN]. Compare as to "woven hangings for Astarte" (the right translation for "grove") 2Ki 23:7.

JFB: Eze 16:16 - -- Rather, "have not come, nor shall be." These thy doings are unparalleled in the past, and shall be so in the future.
Rather, "have not come, nor shall be." These thy doings are unparalleled in the past, and shall be so in the future.
Calvin -> Eze 16:16
Calvin: Eze 16:16 - -- He says that the Jews erected houses of ill fame for themselves; and the language is mixed, because the Prophet, expresses simply the kind of harlotr...
He says that the Jews erected houses of ill fame for themselves; and the language is mixed, because the Prophet, expresses simply the kind of harlotry of which he is speaking, and yet in the meantime mingles another figure; for he says that they took garments and made themselves altars. No doubt he compares the high places to tents, just as if a harlot wished to attract a number of eyes to herself, and, through desire of a crowd, should place her standard on a lofty place. So also the Prophet says that the Jews, when they gave themselves up to fornication, made high places for themselves. 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. 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
TSK -> Eze 16:16

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Barnes -> Eze 16:16
Barnes: Eze 16:16 - -- Compare 2Ki 23:7. Such decoration of idol-temples in the holy land showed how the ungrateful people were devoting the wealth and energies which Yahw...
Compare 2Ki 23:7. Such decoration of idol-temples in the holy land showed how the ungrateful people were devoting the wealth and energies which Yahweh had given them to the service of those false gods, in whose worship He was especially dishonored.
The like things shall not come ... - The abominations reached the very utmost - nothing would hereafter be so bad as these had been.
Poole -> Eze 16:16
Poole: Eze 16:16 - -- Of thy garments hers they were for use, by gift of God, but she looked on them as hers, without respect to either the giver or use intended. Those co...
Of thy garments hers they were for use, by gift of God, but she looked on them as hers, without respect to either the giver or use intended. Those costly, royal robes, the very wedding clothes and furniture,
thou didst take as an adulteress that parts with the rich gifts of her husband to oblige an adulterer.
Deckedst: by this it appears how shameless she was grown, that blushed not to be known, one that had turned her Husband’ s bounty, that had abused the unparalleled kindness of her God, to the open and public service of her adulterer, her idol; thus she turned her glory into shame.
Thy high places where both the idol’ s altar and worship were fixed.
With divers colours with those beautiful clothes and furniture I put upon thee to adorn thee; these hast thou made the carpets and hangings for the honour and service of idols.
The like things shall not come so matchless is this adulteress, that none shall be so impudent, and do like her; as there was none before her that hath done so to be her example, so shall there be none to follow her in these things wherein she hath exceeded.
Haydock -> Eze 16:16
Haydock: Eze 16:16 - -- Places: pavilions, (Cornelius a Lapide; 4 Kings xvii. 30.; Calmet) or idols stuffed, (St. Jerome; Theodoret) and outwardly adorned. Such might easil...
Places: pavilions, (Cornelius a Lapide; 4 Kings xvii. 30.; Calmet) or idols stuffed, (St. Jerome; Theodoret) and outwardly adorned. Such might easily be procured or removed, 1 Kings xix. 13. ---
Hereafter, with impunity. The Jews were guilty of greater ingratitude than other nations.
Gill -> Eze 16:16
Gill: Eze 16:16 - -- And of thy garments thou didst take,.... Which were made of fine linen, silk, and broidered work; which God had given them, and they were richly clad ...
And of thy garments thou didst take,.... 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 Pro 7:16; or "thou hast made for thyself high places spotted" d; so the word is rendered in Gen 30:32; alluding to garments spotted with the flesh by adulterers. The Targum is, "thou hast made for thyself high places covered with idols": and so the Septuagint version renders it, "idols sewed together". The word, in the Talmudic language e, has the signification of sewing. These idols were decked as children's babies are; and so the Syriac version, "thou hast made for thyself babies"; images like babies, richly dressed with their garments above described, such as the papists now have;
and playedst the harlot thereon; committed idolatry on the high places; or "with them" f; that is, with the images and idols decked with their garments, which were set on those high places:
the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so; the like idolatries shall set be committed any more; and after the Babylonish captivity worshipping of idols was not practised by the Jews; nor is it to this day: or such "things have not come yet", and there "shall not be" the like g; the sense is, there never were such idolatries committed by this people before; and there hover shall be, or will be, the like afterwards. 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;''
so Ben Melech; and
""and playedst the harlot" with them, as is not right and fit''

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NET Notes -> Eze 16:16
NET Notes: Eze 16:16 The text as written in the MT is incomprehensible (“not coming [plural] and he will not”). Driver has suggested a copying error of similar...
Geneva Bible -> Eze 16:16
Geneva Bible: Eze 16:16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and didst deck thy high places with various colours, ( m ) and didst play the harlot upon them: [the like things]...

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TSK Synopsis -> Eze 16:1-63
TSK Synopsis: Eze 16:1-63 - --1 Under the similitude of a wretched infant is shewn the natural state of Jerusalem.6 God's extraordinary love towards her.15 Her monstrous whoredom.3...
MHCC -> Eze 16:1-58
MHCC: Eze 16:1-58 - --In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nati...
Matthew Henry -> Eze 16:15-34
Matthew Henry: Eze 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 favou...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Eze 16:15-22
Keil-Delitzsch: Eze 16:15-22 - --
The apostasy of Israel. Its origin and nature, Eze 16:15-22; its magnitude and extent, Eze 16:23-34. In close connection with what precedes, this ap...
Constable: Eze 4:1--24:27 - --II. Oracles of judgment on Judah and Jerusalem for sin chs. 4-24
This section of the book contains prophecies th...

Constable: Eze 12:1--19:14 - --C. Yahweh's reply to the invalid hopes of the Israelites chs. 12-19
"The exiles had not grasped the seri...

Constable: Eze 16:1-63 - --7. Jerusalem's history as a prostitute ch. 16
This chapter is the longest prophetic message in t...
