Ezekiel 16:1
Again the word of LORD came to me, saying,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
In Context
2Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Cross References
Isaiah 1:21How the faithful city has become a harlot! She who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
Jeremiah 30:15Why do thou cry for thy hurt? Thy pain is incurable, for the greatness of thine iniquity. Because thy sins were increased, I have done these things to thee.
Ezekiel 22:2And thou, son of man, will thou judge, will thou judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
Hosea 1:2When LORD spoke at the first by Hosea, LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom, departing from LORD.
Amos 2:4Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have rejected the law of LORD, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, accord
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:1
Still God is justifying himself in the desolations he is about to bring upon Jerusalem; and very largely, in this chapter, he shows the prophet, and orders him to show the people, that he did but punish them as their sins deserved. In the foregoing chapter he had compared Jerusalem to an unfruitful vine, that was fit for nothing but the fire; in this chapter he compares it to an adulteress, that, in justice, ought to be abandoned and exposed, and he must therefore show the people their abominations, that they… Read the whole commentary →