Bible Gateway passage: Ezekiel 16:6 - New King James Version And what God gives us the use of he still retains a property in. Leaving him to serve other gods, she became a spiritual prostitute. A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts repeat. Then a passing traveller (Yahweh) picked the baby up and gave it a chance to live. 17 You also took the fine jewelry I . And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is in the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite ( Ezekiel 16:3 ). And you grew up, and you became tall and reached full womanhood. To someone who has never seen this happen, it sounds a little spooky or irreligious. Janet, . 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. But people for years have used this almost as a charm kind of a thing to stop bleeding. And so Jerusalem well, first of all, rather the Amorites followed by the Hittites. '- New American Standard Version (1995)And when I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, I said unto thee, `Though thou art' in thy blood, live; yea, I said unto thee, `Though thou art' in thy blood, live.- American Standard Version (1901)And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;- Basic English BibleAnd I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, and I said unto thee, in thy blood, Live! Ezekiel 16:6-7. Ezekiel 16:6 | Don't Forget The Old Ways They not only worshipped the true God by images, as the ten tribes by the calves at Dan and Bethel, but they worshipped false gods, Baal and Moloch, and all the senseless rabble of the pagan deities. This implies something more than "the poverty of the people in the wilderness attached to Egypt" (Hitzig). Ive never heard that aspect of it, nor have I heard that the gift has to be passed from a man, to a woman, to a man, back to a woman, and so forth. There are some dogs that are just mean; you don't want to be around them. When they had multiplied their idols and superstitious usages beyond measure, yet still they were enquiring after new gods and new fashions in worship. It just seems like it was always there, was always a fact and always worked. I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, that's illegal. "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'. The Lord in looking at it looks behind it, and He said it was: pride, [it was] fullness of bread [prosperity], the abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters, and neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy ( Ezekiel 16:49 ). In Ezekiel 16:7 the description of the real fact breaks through the allegory. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, 21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 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. There are some people that are just mean; you don't want to be around them. KJV: King James Version. To make matters worse, she participated in the pagan practice of offering her children as human sacrifices (20-22).As a prostitute uses brothels to attract her customers, so Israel built idol shrines throughout her towns and villages (23-25). 7I 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. "In this respect the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms: others are courted, but thou makest court to those that do not follow thee, art fond of making leagues and alliances with those heathen nations that despise thee; others have gifts given them, but thou givest thy gifts, the gifts which God had graciously given thee, to thy idols; herein thou art like a wife that commits adultery, not for gain, as harlots do, but entirely for the sin's sake." When he says high places with different colors, some refer this to ornaments; yet it may be taken in a bad sense, since those high places were stained, so that they could be distinguished from chase and modest dwellings; as if he had said, If you had been a modest woman, you had remained in retirement at home, as honest matrons do, and you would not have done anything to attract men to thee; but you has erected thy high places, like conspicuous houses of ill fame, as if a female, forgetful of modesty and delicacy, should set up a sign, and show her house to be open to all, and especially to her own adulterers. Note, In the account which impenitent sinners shall be called to they will be told not only of the mercies for which they have been ungrateful, but of the afflictions under which they have been incorrigible, Amos 4:11. The unfaithfulness of Jerusalem (16:1-43). polluted in bloodbut Piscator, "ready to be trodden on. 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. In this way they understand that the insane lust of the people is condemned, as if it were a prodigy, such as was never seen, nor yet to be expected. 5None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. The Lord Passed By | Ezekiel 16:1-6 First Free Will Baptist Church 2.29K subscribers Subscribe 963 views 7 years ago Ezekiel 16:1-6 Music: The Duncan Boys Recorded on 03/31/2014 Show. Now every Christian ought to be out voting. Global Prayer Ministries exists to pray and promote prayer in the Body of Christ. Start your free trial today! You're a fool if you seek to stand before God in your own goodness and in your own righteousness. And they said, "You're a stranger. 6And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you in your blood, Live!. Flowing in that way of the world. Have you ever utilized the blood-stopping verse Ezekiel 16:6? So I will make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from me, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. But thy father was an Amorite, thy mother a Hittite, referring to the nations that inhabited the land prior to the coming in of Abraham. They adorned their idol-temples, and groves, and high places, with the fine rich clothing that God had given them (Ezekiel 16:16; Ezekiel 16:18): Thou deckedst thy high places with divers colours, with the coats of divers colours, like Joseph's, which God had given them as particular marks of his favour, and hast played the harlot (that is, worshipped idols) thereupon. 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. Now, at the end of the verse, where he says, they do not come, and it shall not be, some explain this part as if the Prophet had said that there was no instance like it in former ages, and there should be none such hereafter. Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular, Preposition | second person feminine singular, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | second person feminine singular, Verb - Hitpael - Participle - feminine singular, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular, Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed, Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular, Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem. So likewise, after the Israelites had spent centuries away from God in Egypt, he saved them from shame and made them his own people by covenant at Mt Sinai (8-14).But the woman was not faithful to the marriage covenant. You come to live with us, and now are you gonna judge us?" Note, Those that are most foolish are commonly most imperious, and think themselves fit to manage others when they are far from being able to manage themselves. Note, The children of parents that are members of the visible church are to be looked upon as born unto God, and his children,; as such, and under that character, we are to love them, and pray for them, bring them up for him, and, if he calls for them, cheerfully part with them to him; for may he not do what he will with his own? The King James translators guessed badger. 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. 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. And you've turned after every god, played the harlot, poured out your fornications on every one that passed by. 6. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and so I spread my blanket over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and you became mine ( Ezekiel 16:7-8 ). 3. But, of course, a city is always made up of inhabitants. Start your free trial today! 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. https://www.studylight.org/​commentaries/​mhm/​ezekiel-16.html. The ancient nation Israel began life in Canaan as a hated people of mixed blood and mixed culture. The word, in the Talmudic language e, has the signification of sewing. 4. Because it is a shameful scandalous sin for those that have joined themselves to the Lord to join themselves to an idol. One example is the following verse, from Ezekiel 16:6 Because the more I wrote, the crazier it sounded. These idols were decked as children's babies are; and so the Syriac version, "thou hast made for thyself babies"; images like babies, richly dressed with their garments above described, such as the papists now have; and playedst the harlot thereon; committed idolatry on the high places; or "with them" f; that is, with the images and idols decked with their garments, which were set on those high places: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]; the like idolatries shall set be committed any more; and after the Babylonish captivity worshipping of idols was not practised by the Jews; nor is it to this day: or such "things have not come yet", and there "shall not be" the like g; the sense is, there never were such idolatries committed by this people before; and there hover shall be, or will be, the like afterwards. I have caused thee to . Which were made of fine linen, silk, and broidered work; which God had given them, and they were richly clad with: and deckedst thy high places with divers colours; that is, with garments of divers colours; either they erected tents on their high places, made with these; or they covered their altars with them, which were on their high places for the ornament of them, as harlots deck their beds to allure their lovers; see Proverbs 7:16; or "thou hast made for thyself high places spotted" d; so the word is rendered in. God here speaks after the manner of men. They were a people notorious for idolatry, and for the most sottish senseless idolatries; they had of old abused Israel by their barbarous dealings, and of late by their treacherous dealings-were always either cruel or false to them; and yet so infatuated were they that they committed fornication with the Egyptians their neighbours, not only by joining with them in their idolatries, but by entering into leagues and alliances with them, and depending upon them for help in their straits, which was an adulterous departure from God. Isaiah 51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. And Engedi will be a place where they will be drying their fishing nets. The Targum is, "thou hast made for thyself high places covered with idols": and so the Septuagint version renders it, "idols sewed together". They had sacrificed their children to their idols. However, Im certainly not putting this up for cause to debate. Or, "I gave you shoes of badger skins." That day is coming. Compare 2 Kings 23:7. New King James Version (NKJV) 6. Ezekiel 16:6 Menus - biblehub.com Some people are said to have the gift of healing, that is for each individual to believe or not. As you know, I grew up in the heart of the Appalachian mountains in Eastern Kentucky. Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. Shall we turn in our Bibles at this time to the sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel. 8 " 'And I passed by you . Who would have thought it? The Lord Passed By | Ezekiel 16:1-6 - YouTube Now verse Ezekiel 16:6 , interestingly enough, from old times was used as a verse to stop hemorrhaging or stop the flow of blood. As, (1.) 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." And when I passed by thee While as yet no body took so much care of thee as to wash thee from thy native filthiness, I took pity on thee; as a traveller that passes by and sees an infant lie exposed; and I provided all things necessary for thy support. But is whoredom, is spiritual whoredom, a small matter? Maybe someone else remembers it too , Sis, I have heard this blood verse so many times when I was growing up. 25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. You were cast out. You were nothing; you were perishing. And as God works in us by His Spirit, and as we are changed into the image of Christ, God looks at us and says, "Oh, you're perfectly beautiful." 22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. Now, these conditions of pride and prosperity and idleness of time. That Seine shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames. The queen of Sheba came from the south to see and to hear. But, 1. All rights reserved. Live - This is such a command as sends forth a power to effect what is commanded; he gave that life: he spake, and it was done. 16:6 When I passed by - God here speaks after the manner of men. Ive also heard many, many stories about it working on farm animals as well, but have no personal recollections that anything like that has ever worked for anyone close in our family. It was because of this kind of an environment they felt the bravado to parade publicly. "Henry's Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible". Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter. No foreign idol could be imported, no new god invented, but they were ready to catch at it, as a common trumpet that prostitutes herself to all comers and multiplies her whoredoms,Ezekiel 16:25; Ezekiel 16:25. Save 15% on BibleGateway+ with code SPRINGSTUDY15. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 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. They forget it was God who made us strong. Your email address will not be published. We have phlegmatic, and we have different types of temperaments, and none of them really have any acceptance before God. Note, It should be an effectual check to our pride and sensuality to consider what we are and how much we are beholden to the free grace of God. And you took your broidered garments, and you covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense before them. In this chapter Ezekiel describes Judahs relationship with Yahweh by means of a long and colourful illustration. Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: 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; 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 hated; I will gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. 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. Apparently, its a belief that goes back much further than my generation or my parents generation because, as I have spoken with people over the years, it seems to be common knowledge among mountain people. Note, Abundance of young people are ruined by pride and particularly pride in their beauty. Note, Those shame themselves that bring a reproach on their profession. Israel was unfaithful to the one who had done so much for her. One example is the following verse, from Ezekiel 16:6. Thus some common drunkards will be company for every one that puts up the finger to them; how weak are the hearts of such! Share Read Full Chapter. Note, The strength of men's lusts is an evidence of the weakness of their hearts; they have no acquaintance with themselves, nor government of themselves. Rara est concordia form atque pudiciti--Beauty and chastity are seldom associated 2. The ancient nation Israel began life in Canaan as a hated people of mixed blood and mixed culture. See how fond they were of their idols, that they would part with that which was given them for the necessary subsistence of themselves and their families to honour them with, which may shame our niggardliness and strait-handedness in the service of the true and living God. I do not believe the day is far off. III. 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. How absurd was this, that the children which were born to God should be sacrificed to devils! What does Ezekiel 16:6 mean? | BibleRef.com 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. Ezekiel 16:6 KJV. New King James Version (NKJV). (By the way, I recommend that book, if you havent read it lol). Isaiah 14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. Ezekiel 16:6 King James Version 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. You've been worse than Samaria and worse than Sodom. This is much insisted on, Ezekiel 16:31-34; Ezekiel 16:31-34. In Revelation 19 , verse Ezekiel 16:6 , He speaks about, "And the bride hath made herself ready and she was adorned in fine linen, pure and clean." She built shrines and altars to other gods, and offered to those gods the things that Yahweh had freely given her (15-19). 18 Bible verses about Bleeding - Knowing Jesus God made a covenant with them, "You are Mine." That righteousness that is ours is that which God has imputed to us through our faith in Jesus Christ. Ezekiel 16:6 - The Bible App 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 ). Naked and bare are figurative expressions for still destitute of either clothing or ornaments. Every penny has God's image upon it as well as Csar's. And thus, is oftentimes much further from the Lord than the person who has a naturally miserable disposition. And so He anointed our life with the Holy Spirit. Im simply putting this up as one of the old time things I remember from my childhood. The washing of the regeneration of the Word of God. So God is speaking out against Jerusalem. A city as itself is not good or evil. They were fond of the idols of those nations which had been their oppressors and persecutors. 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. I purchased you. That is, they turned away from God and they began to worship every god of all of the people that were round about. And those that dont probably never will. God walked by the baby, flailing around in her own blood, and gave her the power to live. The description given in these verses refers to the preservation and marvellous multiplication of Israel in Egypt, where the sons of Israel grew into a nation under the divine blessing. Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins which you have committed are more abominable than they: and they are more righteous than you: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that you have justified your sisters. I. This charm is used in a variety of ways, generally spoke three times over the person who is suffering the bleeding. The umbilical chord was not cut. As Paul writes in Ephesians 2 , "And you hath He made alive, who were dead in your trespasses and sins. It reads: "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." Not just anybody can use it. (LogOut/ 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; 31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire; 32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! Isaiah 57:8), or perhaps full human figures are in view. It was like an unwanted baby girl thrown out at birth and left to die (16:1-5). This goes back to the early settling of the states and things brought . In thy blood - may be connected either with "I said" or with "Live." Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. And that horrible condition in which we find Sodom when the angels of the Lord came and were staying in the house of Lot and the men of the city began to knock on the door saying, "Open unto us and send out those men that came into your house that we may know them." And Lot went to the door and said, "Go away, don't do this evil unto these men. They were ready to close with every temptation of this kind, though ever so absurd. As we go further in Ezekiel, we're going to find that a new there is an earthquake that is going to take place in Jerusalem that is going to create a new valley and is going to unlock an underground river, a spring that will begin to flow from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea with such a supply of water that when it comes into the Dead Sea, the waters of the Dead Sea will be healed and there will be all manner of fish and all there in the Dead Sea. But I'm the one that rescued you and saved you and put My beauty on you. The Bible inspires quite a few of the verbal charms used in Ozark Folk Magic, some of which are exactly the same as those used by the Pennsylvania Dutch Brauchers. 9Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. NKJV, The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NKJV, Abide Bible, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version, NKJV, Woman's Study Bible, Red Letter, Full-Color: Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation, NKJV Study Bible, Full-Color, Comfort Print: The Complete Resource for Studying Gods Word, NKJV, Chronological Study Bible: Holy Bible, New King James Version, NKJV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture. Ezekiel 16 is an extended metaphor containing an oracle of judgement and concludes with a promise of a future everlasting covenant (v. 59-63), which is the new covenant that Jesus inaugurated in his death and resurrection. So I hit publish and, well, here we are . Not just throwing an old gunnysack at you and saying, "Dress up." To stop the bleeding they would quote this verse. 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. Have you ever utilized the blood-stopping verse Ezekiel 16:6? 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 ). Now, these are the conditions that produced this blatant demonstration of these homosexual men. Ezekiel 16:6 - to stop bleeding Leave a comment The Bible inspires quite a few of the verbal charms used in Ozark Folk Magic, some of which are exactly the same as those used by the Pennsylvania Dutch Brauchers. And then the Lord goes on to declare, "I clothed thee with broidered work." "Live in thy blood," that is, Live, but live a life exposed to many deaths, as was the case in the beginnings of Israel's national existence, in order to magnify the grace of God [Calvin]. Sodom shall be inhabited as Samaria, and of course, as Jerusalem. And they were going to grab him, and the angels said to Lot, "Stand back." 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 ). 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. And that person, as far as standing before God, is no worse off than the person who has by nature a very pleasant disposition, who's easy going, and calm.