Ezekiel 16:61
Then you will think about what you have done, and you will be ashamed about those things when you welcome the people of Sodom and Samaria, cities which are like [MET] older and younger sisters to you people of Jerusalem. I will put them under your control by causing them to become like [MET] your daughters, but they will not have the same agreement that I will make with you.
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Esther 9:27the Jews throughout the empire agreed to celebrate in that manner on those two days every year. They said that they would tell their descendants and those people who became Jews to be certain to celebrate this festival every year. They should celebrate just as Mordecai told them to do in the letter that he wrote.
Psalms 119:59I have thought about my behavior, and I have decided to return to obeying ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►.
Isaiah 2:2I saw that in the future, the hill on which Yahweh’s temple is built will be the most important place on the earth; it will be as though it is the highest mountain, as though it has been raised up above all other hills; and people from all over the world will come there.
Isaiah 49:18You will look around and see all of your children coming back to you. As surely as I live, they will be around you for you to show to people like [SIM] a bride shows her wedding ornaments!
Isaiah 60:4Yahweh says, “Look around and you will see the people who will be returning from ◄exile/countries to which they have been forced to go►! Your sons will come from distant countries; others will carry your little daughters home.
Jeremiah 31:18I have heard the people of Israel grieving very much and saying to me, ‘You punished us severely, like [SIM] calves are beaten by their owners to train them for pulling a plow. So bring us back to obey/worship you again, because we are ready to return to you, because you alone are Yahweh, our God.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:61-63
Mercy in Reserve; Promise of Mercy. ( b. c. 593.) 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. 61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. 62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord : 63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and… Read the whole commentary →