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Ezekiel 16:19

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And you set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I had given you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I had fed you. That is what happened, declares the Lord GOD.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savor; and thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.

KJV

My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God.

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This verse in Ezekiel 16

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
My meat also which I gave thee,.... Or "my bread" (i); a general name for all eatables. The Targum renders it, "my good things.'' The Jews apply it to the manna, which, they say, descended the same day the molten calf was made, and they set it before it.

This site's exposition

you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot

on Ezekiel 16:15-19

The turn is abrupt: “you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot,” lavishing favors “on everyone who passed by.” The Lord’s own gifts become idols. Fairbairn notes the high places and foreign shrines built with royal wealth during the divided kingdom.

This site's exposition

as a pleasing aroma

A pleasing aroma is the law's phrase for offerings the LORD accepts, as at Leviticus 1:9. Jerusalem gave His food to idols. Gill records a Jewish tradition that manna was set before the golden calf.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Allusion is here made to some rite like the Roman “Lectisternia,” in which public tables were set forth for feasts in honor of idols.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְלַחְמִי֩and food my

    velachmiH3899 →298 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • נָתַ֨תִּיI had given

    natatiH5414 →2011 times

  • לָ֜ךְto you

    lakh

  • סֹ֣לֶתfine flour

    soletH5560 →53 times

  • וָשֶׁ֤מֶןand oil

    vashemenH8081 →193 times

  • וּדְבַשׁ֙and honey

    udevashH1706 →54 times

  • הֶֽאֱכַלְתִּ֔יךְ[which] I had given to eat you

    heekhaltikhH398 →810 times

  • וּנְתַתִּ֧יהוּand you put it

    unetatihuH5414 →2011 times

  • לִפְנֵיהֶ֛ם<to> before them

    lifneihemH6440 →2123 times

  • לְרֵ֥יחַto an odor of

    lereiachH7381 →58 times

  • נִיחֹ֖חַsoothing

    nichoachH5207 →43 times

  • וַיֶּ֑הִיand it was

    vaiyehiH1961 →3559 times

  • נְאֻ֖ם[the] utterance of

    neumH5002 →376 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֥י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

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 be queen.3 worksGenesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.2 worksDeuteronomy 32:14–17with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.2 worksHosea 2:8–13For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal.2 worksEzekiel 20:28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.2 worksNumbers 28:2“Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My offerings by fire, as a pleasing aroma to Me.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Genesis 8:21

    When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth.…

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 2:15

      For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

    • Ephesians 5:2

      and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

    • Genesis 6:5

      Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

    • Jeremiah 17:9

      The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

    • Isaiah 54:9–10

      “For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 16:13

    So 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.

    • 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,

    • 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…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 16 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Calvin, Commentaries on the First Twenty Chapters of the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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