Ezekiel 16:38

And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

In Context

37For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all those to whom you have given your love, with all those who were hated by you; I will even make them come together against you on every side, and I will have you uncovered before them so that they may see your shame.

39I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.

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Cross References

Genesis 38:11Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

Exodus 21:12He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

Numbers 35:16But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

Numbers 35:18Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

Numbers 35:31Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:24Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:36-44

Grievous Punishment of Israel; Punishment Threatened. ( b. c. 593.) 35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord : 36 Thus saith the Lord God ; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast… Read the whole commentary →

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