From one hillbilly to another, Renae, Yes, I expected you had heard this before, for sure You know, as I was writing it out, and getting closer to the end of the blog post, I thought once to discard it. Like you said, when you believe the word of God, and you have faith in its words, you generally see results! It works the same way with a burn. You were cast out. No, it certainly doesnt sound crazy, thats actually a Native American thing, if Im not mistaken. saith the Lord GOD;) 24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a high place in every street. So God said, "I've begun to turn you over to your enemies.". Is it a small matter for men to make their children brutes and the devil their god? If he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity, . Thus Mr. George Herbert long since foretold, or feared at least. Access 50+ premium resources. 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. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord ( Ezekiel 16:9-14 ). It just seems like it was always there, was always a fact and always worked. But, of course, a city is always made up of inhabitants. And when I passed by thee Alluding to a traveller passing by where an infant lies, exposed, and looks upon it, and takes it up; or it may be to Pharaoh's daughter walking by the river side, when she spied the ark in which Moses was, and ordered it to be taken up, and so saved his life: and saw thee in thine own blood; keeping up the simile of a newborn infant, that has nothing . God is talking about when He first saw the nation of Israel, Jerusalem, the people of Jerusalem. "As you meandered according to the course of this world." Really not for hard labor or hard work out in the fields. Before he brought such a famine upon them as broke the staff of bread he diminished their ordinary food, but them short before he cut them off. I am looking forward to reading more about the Old Ways here! And they said, "Get out of here. Naked and bare are figurative expressions for still destitute of either clothing or ornaments. Share Read Full Chapter. Meanwhile, as to the general scope, it is not of much consequence; as in the former verse, where he said it shall be theirs, some understand appetite or desire. They built temples in honour of their idols, that others might be invited to resort thither and join with them in the worship of their idols: "After all thy wickedness of this kind committed in private, for which, woe, woe, unto thee" (that comes in in a sad parenthesis, denoting those to be in a woeful condition who are going on in sin, and giving them warning in time, if they would but take it), "thou hast at length arrived at such a pitch of impudence as to proclaim it; thou hast long had a whore's heart, but now thou hast come to have a whore's forehead, and canst not blush," Ezekiel 16:23-35; Ezekiel 16:23-35. Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way ( Ezekiel 16:25-27 ). Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but you have fretted me in all of these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations. Those that in sincerity join themselves to the true God find enough in him for their satisfaction; and, though they still desire more of God, yet they never desire more than God. Ezekiel 16:6 KJV. "You were not washed in water; you were not salted nor swaddled.". 1. Harlots generally had their hire; but this impudent adulteress, instead of being hired to serve idols, hired idols to protect her and accept her homage. But now I have seen and it was not told to me half of the glory of your kingdom. We did not have the wisdom to learn from history, and the Christians by their inactivity have allowed these to be.We're soon going to be electing school boards and other officials in our community. A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts repeat. New King James Version (NKJV). The word course comes from the Greek word weathervane. It was because of this kind of an environment they felt the bravado to parade publicly. Genesis 30:32; alluding to garments spotted with the flesh by adulterers. But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband! You were meandering through life. But he said, "I never go out without my bag of salt." Now, before the children of Israel came to dwell in the land, the first inhabitants of the land of Palestine were the Hittites and then also the Amorites. A day for pleasure, a day for seeking after the flesh, a day of attempting to satiate the flesh in pleasure. And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live. I am the one that made this covenant with you. And I don't care how moral, how honest, how sincere, and how good a person you are. Ezekiel 16:6 Context. When they had multiplied their idols and superstitious usages beyond measure, yet still they were enquiring after new gods and new fashions in worship. And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none follows thee to commit whoredoms: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to thee, therefore you are contrary. But you did trust in your own beauty, and you played the harlot because of your renown, and you poured out your fornications on every one that passed by; his it was ( Ezekiel 16:15 ). The word, in the Talmudic language e, has the signification of sewing. The Israelites began betimes to turn their jewels into idols, when Aaron made the golden calf of their earrings. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. So as the nation developed, the time came for love, and God came to the nation to receive the love, entered into a covenant, married them in that sense. Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. Jerusalem used the gifts that God had given her to make idols and to worship them rather than her Lord (2 Kings 23:7; Jeremiah 10:9). The umbilical chord was not cut. They were at great expense with their idolatry, and laid out a great deal of wealth in purchasing patterns of images and altars, and hiring priests to attend upon them from other countries. Ezekiel 16:6 (Recite to Stop Bleeding) / 24" x 47.5". Sodom shall be inhabited as Samaria, and of course, as Jerusalem. 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If there is a man who lies with a menstruous woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow, and she has exposed the flow of her blood; thus both of them shall be cut off from among their people. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Ezekiel 16:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful . "I shod thee with badger skins." And my meat also which I gave thee, the fine flour, the oil, the honey, wherewith I fed you, you have even set it before these little images as a sweet savor: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD ( Ezekiel 16:18-19 ). This is much insisted on, Ezekiel 16:31-34; Ezekiel 16:31-34. And so God took so much care and so much skill to clothe us with the righteousness which is of Jesus Christ through faith. There is nothing that makes us spiritually acceptable. You became famous, became renown throughout among the heathen. They give gifts to all whores: but you have given gifts to all of your lovers, and you've hired them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom ( Ezekiel 16:32-33 ). Then a passing traveller (Yahweh) picked the baby up and gave it a chance to live. 7 Grow up; I will make you like a plant of the field.". Others say, that such was the multitude of high places, that nothing was ever like it; because, although the Gentiles built idols, and temples, and altars everywhere, yet the Prophet says that the madness and fury of the people surpassed the intemperance of the Gentiles: this is indeed to the purpose. We have phlegmatic, and we have different types of temperaments, and none of them really have any acceptance before God. 4 And as for thy natiuity in the day thou wast borne, thy nauell was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee: thou wast not salted at all, nor swadled at all. Nitimur in vetitum--We incline to what is forbidden. The Targum is, "thou hast made for thyself high places covered with idols": and so the Septuagint version renders it, "idols sewed together". However, Im certainly not putting this up for cause to debate. Even those nations, Israels lovers, were ashamed of her immoral behaviour, but Israel kept lusting for more (26-29). Yes, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'. Like you have dogs that are good natured and dogs that are bad natured. For thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and my silver, which I had given thee, and you made unto yourself images of men, and you did commit whoredom with them ( Ezekiel 16:16-17 ). Usually the customer pays the prostitute, but in the case of the prostitute Israel she paid the customer, so that she could multiply her immoral acts (30-34).According to Israelite practice, the punishment for an adulteress was to be stripped naked, paraded in public and then stoned to death. Burning them in the fire, casting them into the fire, or putting them into the arms of the little outstretched iron gods of Baal that were heated in the fire till they were red hot and then they would place their babies in those red hot arms and burn them as an offering unto the gods. I enjoy reading about this. What were the particulars of it. Im simply putting this up as one of the old time things I remember from my childhood. But, of course, it's out of context. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Because the more I wrote, the crazier it sounded. But don't do this evil to these men." He had created them, took them when they were nothing, made them great, made them beautiful. Now, these are the conditions that produced this blatant demonstration of these homosexual men. Janet, . For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant ( Ezekiel 16:52-59 ). In Ezekiel 16:7 the description of the real fact breaks through the allegory. Your life was aimless before the Lord met you. And you were exceedingly beautiful and you prospered into a kingdom. And it is a great aggravation of sin when men are their own tempters, and, instead of proposing to themselves any worldly advantage by their sin, are at great expense with it; such are transgressors without cause (Psalms 25:3), wicked transgressors indeed. "Complete Commentary on Ezekiel 16:16". God made a covenant with them, "You are Mine." New International Version (NIV). 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. To stop the bleeding they would quote this verse. 4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. Thou hast built thy high place at the head of every way, and you have made thy beauty to be abhorred, and you have opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. Ezekiel 16 - The Harlot Wife of Yahweh. And the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. In Egypt, Israel was living in a state of nature, destitute of the gracious revelations of God. Whichever way the world was flowing, that's the way you were going. And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD ( Ezekiel 16:61-63 ). What did you do? They grew proud (Ezekiel 16:15; Ezekiel 16:15): "Thou trustedst to thy beauty, and didst expect that that should make thee an interest, and didst play the harlot because of thy renown." You've scorn the payment. View more Ezekiel 16:6 meaning, interpretation, and commentary "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." (2.) It all depends on what the people are that live within that city. One example is the following verse, from Ezekiel 16:6 So also the Prophet says that the Jews, when they gave themselves up to fornication, made high places for themselves. But the allegory is resumed immediately. KJV: King James Version. As far as I know, saying this verse over anyone who is hemorrhaging will stop the blood flow, you just have to be a believer. Because it is the corrupting and defiling of the mind, and the enslaving of the spiritual part of the man, and subjecting it to the power and dominion of sense, as whoredom is. My daddy and his people were raised in the old ways so I am very interested and wish I had listened when I had the chance. They were fond of the idols of those nations which had been their oppressors and persecutors. One prays for healing using different bible verses, a verse from Ezekiel 16 is used for healing humans or animals that has bleeding that can not be stopped, to stop the bleeding. But is whoredom, is spiritual whoredom, a small matter? Note, Those shame themselves that bring a reproach on their profession. That is, they turned away from God and they began to worship every god of all of the people that were round about. That Seine shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames. The word rendered "polluted" signifies "trodden underfoot" (l); like mire in the streets; and so denotes both pollution and distress; so the Israelites were trodden under foot by the Egyptians, when they made them to serve with rigour, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; and so the Targum paraphrases it, "for it was manifest before me that you were afflicted in your bondage;''. And I will judge thee, as a woman that has broken wedlock and those that have shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. I did happen to read about it on a website called Appalachian History, where it is called The Blood Verse and attributed to Hillbilly Witchcraft. One example is the following verse, from Ezekiel 16:6. And he usually is coming to the Lord more readily. Who would have thought it? Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! They have peptic type of dispositions, like their stomach is constantly upset or something. He says that they were like a female baby, the child of a Hittite mother and an Amorite father, abandoned in a field with her umbilical cord still uncut, dirty and bloody and with no one to pity her. And the old miner that was with us reached in and got out a little pack of salt and poured it all over. Note, Spiritual lusts, those of the mind, such as theirs after idols were, are often as strong and impetuous as any carnal lusts are. Save 15% on BibleGateway+ with code SPRINGSTUDY15. (By the way, I recommend that book, if you havent read it lol). 3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. "Now ye are clean," Jesus said, "through the words that I have spoken unto you." Posted on October 18, 2016 by Stacey Lynn. King James Version (KJV). The most common method was to walk east and recite Ezekiel 16:6. And they turned against Him. So God did before he laid his hand upon them to ruin and destroy them; and that is his usual method, to try to bring men to repentance first by less judgments. This is insisted upon here, and often elsewhere, as one of the worst instances of their idolatry, as indeed there was none in which the devil triumphed so much over the children of men, both their natural reason and their natural affection, as in this (see Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:5; Jeremiah 32:35): Thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, and not only made them to pass through the fire, or between two fires, in token of their being dedicated to Moloch, but thou hast sacrificed them to be devoured,Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:20. That if all of the Christians got out and voted for those Christians that are running for these offices, they could be elected to these offices and we could actually perhaps help guide the curriculum of our schools. Behold, I have a couple of daughters that are virgins, I'll turn them over to you. And you took your broidered garments, and you covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense before them. Note, Abundance of young people are ruined by pride and particularly pride in their beauty. This wickedness of theirs is here represented by the lewd and scandalous conversation of that beautiful maid which was rescued from ruin, brought up and well provided for by a kind friend and benefactor, that had been in all respects as a father and a husband to her. , not most beautiful ornament, or highest charms, for is not the plural of ; but according to the Chetib and most of the editions, with the tone upon the penultima, is equivalent to , a dual form; so that cannot mean ornament in this case, but, as in Psalm 39:9 and Psalm 103:5, "the cheek," which is the traditional meaning (cf.