Ezekiel 16:9

Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

In Context

8Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my skirts over you, covering your unclothed body: and I gave you my oath and made an agreement with you, says the Lord, and you became mine.

10And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.

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Cross References

Psalms 23:5You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.

Isaiah 4:4When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

Ezekiel 36:25And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

1 Corinthians 6:11And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

2 Corinthians 1:21Now he who makes our faith strong together with you, in Christ, and has given us of his grace, is God;

1 John 2:20And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:7-15

God's Kindness to Israel. ( b. c. 593.) 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. 7 I 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. 8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was… Read the whole commentary →

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