Ezekiel 16:1
Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
In Context
2Son of man, testify to Jerusalem of her iniquities;
Cross References
Isaiah 1:21How has the faithful city Zion, once full of judgment, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.
Jeremiah 30:15For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.
Ezekiel 22:2And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, declare thou to her all her iniquities.
Hosea 1:2The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take to thyself a wife of fornication, and children of fornication: for the land will surely go a-whoring in departing from the Lord.
Amos 2:4Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.
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 →