Ezekiel 16:10
in Ezekiel 16I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with sealskin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and covered thee with silk.
KJV
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
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This verse in Ezekiel 16
Commentary
3 notes on this verse(Verse 10.) And you clothed yourself in various colors. LXX: And you adorned yourself with various garments: engaging in the rituals of the law, you abandoned idols. These are the various garments with which Joseph was clothed: and his brothers could not sell him unless they first stripped him of his varied tunic (Gen. XXXVII). And it is said of the bride in the forty-fourth psalm: The queen stood at your right hand in a robe adorned with gold, surrounded by variety (Ps. XLIV, 10).
This site's exposition
Then washed I thee with water
on Ezekiel 16:9-14
The Lord himself washes, anoints, clothes and crowns the bride, fine linen and silk, gold and silver, until her renown for beauty spreads among the nations. The chapter is explicit about the source of it: it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee. Henry reads the section as Israel's prosperity under David and Solomon, and Barnes adds that naming every ornament makes the coming betrayal weigh as heavily as it does; nothing here was self-made.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
I clothed thee also with broidered work - Cloth on which various figures, in various colors, were wrought by the needle. With badgers’skin - See Exo 25:6. The same kind of skin with which the tabernacle was covered. Fine linen - בשש beshesh, with cotton. I have seen cloth of this kind enveloping the finest mummies. I covered thee with silk - משי meshi. Very probably the produce of the silk-worm.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
And I clothed you with embroidered garments “And I clothed you with embroidered garments of the spoils of your enemies.”
2 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And I dressed you in embroidered garments from your enemies' treasure, and placed a shoe of glory on your feet, and sanctified from among you the priests to be serving before Me in a linen turban, and the high priest in colored garments.
And I adorned you with ornaments E pare toy, and I adorned you. [Jonathan renders:] And I adorned you with the adornment of the words of the Torah, written on the two stone tablets.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וָאַלְבִּישֵׁ֣ךְ | vaalbishekh | and I clothed you | H3847 → | 110 times |
| רִקְמָ֔ה | rikmah | multicolored cloth | H7553 → | 12 times |
| וָאֶנְעֲלֵ֖ךְ | vaenalekh | and I shod you | H5274 → | |
| תָּ֑חַשׁ | tachash | leather | H8476 → | |
| וָאֶחְבְּשֵׁ֣ךְ | vaechbeshekh | and I wrapped head your | H2280 → | 33 times |
| בַּשֵּׁ֔שׁ | bashesh | with <the> fine linen | H8336 → | 41 times |
| וַאֲכַסֵּ֖ךְ | vaakhasekh | and I covered you | H3680 → | 152 times |
| מֶֽשִׁי׃ | meshi | silk | H4897 → |
וָאַלְבִּישֵׁ֣ךְand I clothed you
vaalbishekhH3847 →110 times
רִקְמָ֔הmulticolored cloth
rikmahH7553 →12 times
וָאֶנְעֲלֵ֖ךְand I shod you
vaenalekhH5274 →
תָּ֑חַשׁleather
tachashH8476 →
וָאֶחְבְּשֵׁ֣ךְand I wrapped head your
vaechbeshekhH2280 →33 times
בַּשֵּׁ֔שׁwith <the> fine linen
basheshH8336 →41 times
וַאֲכַסֵּ֖ךְand I covered you
vaakhasekhH3680 →152 times
מֶֽשִׁי׃silk
meshiH4897 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom…
it leads to
- Revelation 19:7–8
Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
- Psalms 132:9
May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
- Philippians 3:9
and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
- Psalms 132:16
I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints will sing out in joy.
- Revelation 21:2
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- Revelation 19:7–8
Through
Ezekiel 16:13So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became very beautiful and rose to…
it leads to
- Psalms 50:2
From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
- 1 Kings 4:21
And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of…
- Deuteronomy 32:13–14
He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
- Psalms 50:2
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.