I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
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I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
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And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
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And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of fury and jealousy.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 16:38 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 9:6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
- Leviticus 20:10 “ ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
- Zephaniah 1:17 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
- Genesis 38:11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;” for he said, “Lest he also die, like his brothers.” Tamar went and lived in her father’s house.
- Genesis 38:24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
- Exodus 21:12 “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
- Numbers 35:31 “ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 22:22-24 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel. If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Psalms 79:3-5 They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
- Ezekiel 16:20-21 “ ‘ “Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter, that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
- Ezekiel 16:36 ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
- Ezekiel 16:40 They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
- Ezekiel 23:25 I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire.
- Ezekiel 23:45-47 Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed. The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
- Nahum 1:2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
- Matthew 1:18-19 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
- John 8:3-5 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”
- Revelation 16:6 For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain This verse is only added for the sake of…
This verse is only added for the sake of explanation. Already God had explained shortly and clearly every event which should happen to the Jews, yet they should perish in the greatest disgrace and be destitute of all help, since through distrust in God they sought the favor of men, like a woman eager for lovers. But he confirms the same teaching, that they should suffer double punishment, since they not only polluted themselves thus shamefully, but also by impious slaughters, since they burnt their children in honor of false gods. This sentence may be explained generally, I will judge you with the judgments of women pouring out blood, as we know that not only idolatry was rampant at Jerusalem, but rapine, and all kinds of cruelty; for since they had departed from God and his worship, they boldly violated his law. By the second word we may understand all the crimes by which they had provoked God’s anger on account of their cruelty. But since he has lately spoken of sons, I willingly retain that sense, that they should suffer as an adulteress and a parricide who has put her children to death. But they thought that they obeyed: but he not only rejects, but abominates such foolish thoughts; for nothing is more disgraceful than, under the pretense of piety, to slay and to burn one’s own children: this, I say, was a profanation of God’s name scarcely tolerable. No wonder, then, that he denounces double vengeance, since, when the Jews pleaded their zeal, God branded upon them the mark of wickedness, though they thought him bound to their interests. It afterwards follows —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain I will judge thee to death, as the adulterers…
I will judge thee to death, as the adulterers and murderers.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 16:38 And I will judge thee, as women…
Eze 16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
Ver. 38. And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock.] See Lev 20:10 Deu 22:22. The Egyptians cut off the harlot’s nose, and the adulterer’s privy members; the Romans beheaded them; the old Germans whipped them through the streets; Canutus, the Danish king in this land, banished them; Tenedius, a king in another land, did cut them in sunder with an axe; by our laws they are to be hanged, as by the Jews’ laws to be stoned. {Eze 16:40}
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And shed blood.] See Eze 16:35.
I will give thee blood.] God loveth to retaliate.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain And I, who am thy Lord and Husband, whose…
And I, who am thy Lord and Husband, whose authority and kindness thou hast so contemned and abused,
will judge thee; both condemn thee to suffer what thou deservest, and execute what thou art condemned to;
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as women that break wedlock, who were sometimes strangled, sometimes stoned, sometimes burnt, were put to death to be sure, Lev 20:10; Deu 22:22. It may intimate the future destruction of her adulterous lovers, for both the adulterer and adulteress were to die. Site was guilty of the unnatural murder of her children, and God will, according to his own law, Gen 9:5,6; Num 35:31,32, cause her blood to be shed.
Will give thee blood; the like phrase you have Rev 16:6, and elsewhere; the like judgment is expressed by watering the land with blood, as Eze 32:6, and by preparing one for blood, Eze 35:6; Thou gavest the blood of thy children to idols in sacrifice, I will give thee thine own blood to drink; thou didst it in contempt of my law, I will do it in vindication of my law.
In fury and jealousy; passions that do usually appear in the revenges that abused husbands take on their wives which have intolerably dishonoured and wronged them; and God expresseth his great indignation, and the severity of his just displeasure, by allusion hereunto.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I also will give thee into their hand,....…
And I also will give thee into their hand,.... Into the hand of their lovers and enemies that should be gathered against them, the Assyrians and Chaldeans, with others that joined them, as in Eze 16:37;
and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thine high places; the city of Jerusalem, the temple, and altars; and not only these, but even the high places and altars which were set up for idolatrous uses; all should be destroyed by the Chaldean army. The Targum is,
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"and they shall destroy thy walls, and thy high places shall be destroyed:''
they shall strip thee also of thy clothes; as persons commonly are when taken captives:
and shall take thy fair jewels; or, "the vessels of thy glory" (s); the vessels of the sanctuary of gold and silver, and their own household furniture, with all their riches and substance:
and leave thee naked and bare; as at first when in Egypt; see Eze 16:7.
(s) "vasa decoris tui", V. L. "instrumenta ornatus tui", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus; "vasa ornatus tui", Piscator, Starckius.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Blood - Thou gavest the blood of thy children…
Blood - Thou gavest the blood of thy children to idols in sacrifice; I will give thee thine own blood to drink.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Judge; punish thee by stoning to death, Leviticus xx.…
Judge; punish thee by stoning to death, Leviticus xx. 10. The walls of the Jews were battered to the ground.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain judge thee, as women that break wedlock-- (Lev 20:10;…
judge thee, as women that break wedlock-- (Lev 20:10; compare Eze 16:2). In the case of individual adulteresses, stoning was the penalty (Joh 8:4-5). In the case of communities, the sword. Also apostasy (Deu 13:10) and sacrificing children to Molech (Lev 20:1-5) incurred stoning. Thus the penalty was doubly due to Israel; so the other which was decreed against an apostate city (Deu 13:15-16) is added, "they shall stone thee with stones and thrust thee through with . . . swords." The Chaldeans hurled stones on Jerusalem at the siege and slew with the sword on its capture.
shed blood . . . judged-- (Gen 9:6).
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jealousy--image taken from the fury of a husband in jealousy shedding the blood of an unfaithful wife, such as Israel had been towards God, her husband spiritually. Literally, "I will make thee (to become) blood of fury and jealousy."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 38. I will judge thee — The scorn of…
38. I will judge thee — The scorn of the nations whose favor she has courted will be the least of her punishment.
I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy — Rather, I will make thee to be the blood of fury and jealousy. The meaning is that hers shall be the bloody death which, according to the law, the furious husband could inflict upon the wife who has been untrue to the marriage vow and has shed the blood of her child. (See Eze_16:20; Eze_16:36; Eze_23:25; Lev_20:10; Deu_22:22.) Toy translates, “I will inflict on thee the bloody requital of furious indignation.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 38. shed blood] Reference to child murder, Eze_16:20; Eze_16:36.…
38. shed blood] Reference to child murder, Eze_16:20; Eze_16:36. Cf. ch. Eze_23:45; Lev_20:10; Deu_22:22.
give thee blood in fury] Lit. make thee the blood of fury, i.e. bring on thee the bloody death which fury and jealousy executes. On cons. cf. ch. Eze_26:21, Eze_35:6.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (38) Women that break wedlock and shed blood.—Under the…
(38) Women that break wedlock and shed blood.—Under the Mosaic law the penalty for adultery was death (Lev_20:10), and the same penalty also was attached to the devotion of “seed to Moloch” (Lev_20:1-5), and to murder (Exo_21:12). The Jewish method of capital punishment on individuals was by stoning (see Lev_20:2, and comp. Joh_8:5), and of punishing an apostate city was by the sword (Deu_13:15). Hence both modes are mentioned together in Eze_16:40, though somewhat at the expense of the consistency of the allegory. The last clause would be more exactly translated, “I will make thee blood of fury and jealousy,” the fury referring to the avenging of murder, and the jealousy to the punishment of adultery, each requiring the life, or blood, of the offender.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The bloodshed may refer, as in ver. 36, to…
The bloodshed may refer, as in ver. 36, to the Moloch sacrifices, or may include also other crimea, assassinations and judicial murders. (Jer_2:34) Strictly speaking, the punishment of the adulteress was death by stoning. (Lev_20:2, Lev_20:10; Deu_21:21 Deu_22:21; Joh_8:5) Did Ezekiel think of the stones cast against the city from the catapult engines of the Chahleans as a literal counterpart of that punishment? In the last clause read, with the Revised Version, I will bring upon thee the blood of fury and jealousy; sc. the death which was inflicted by the indignation of Jehovah as the Husband against whom Judah had sinned.
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Yahweh continues to speak about Jerusalem as if the city were his unfaithful wife. The city represents the people who live there. (See: Metaphor and Metonymy)
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the shedding of blood
This phrase represents murder in any form. AT: "murder" (See: Metonymy)
I will bring on you the bloodshed of my anger and passion
Here "bloodshed" represents murder in any form. Possible meanings are 1) Yahweh speaks of punishing her for murder as if he were bringing bloodshed upon her. AT: "In my anger and passion, I will punish you for committing murder" or 2) Yahweh speaks of putting her to death as if he were bringing bloodshed upon her. AT: "In my anger and passion, I will shed your blood" (See: Metonymy and Metaphor)
I will give you into their hands
Here "hands" represents power or control. AT: "I will place you in their control" or "I will allow them to have power over you" (See: Metonymy)
throw down your vaulted chamber
Possible meanings are that they will destroy 1) the place where she worshiped her idols or 2) the place where she practiced her prostitution. See how you translated "vaulted chamber" in Ezekiel 16:24.
naked and bare
These two words mean the same thing. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 16:7. AT: "completely naked" (See: Doublet)
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adultery
bloodshed
anger
hand
high place
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