Ezekiel 16:3 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 16:3

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

BSB

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ASV

and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.

KJV

And 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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Birth - See the margin; the word represents “origin” under the figure of “cutting out stone from a quarry” (compare Isa 51:1). An Amorite - the Amorite, a term denoting the whole people. The Amorites, being a principal branch of the Canaanites, are often taken to represent the whole stock Gen 15:16; 2Ki 21:11. An Hittite - Compare Gen 26:34. The main idea is that the Israelites by their doings proved themselves to be the very children of the idolatrous nations who once occupied the land of Canaan. Compare Deu 20:17.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Jerusalem - The whole race of the Jews. Thy birth - Thy root whence thou didst spring. Thy father - Abraham, before God called him, (as his father and kindred) worshipped strange gods beyond the river, Josh. xxiv, 14.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאָמַרְתָּ֞	ve.'a.mar.Ta	and you will say	H559 →
כֹּה־	koh-	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֨ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
אֲדֹנָ֤י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
יְהוִה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3069 →
לִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם	li.Ru.sha.Lim	to Jerusalem	H3389 →
מְכֹרֹתַ֙יִךְ֙	me.kho.ro.Ta.yikh	origins your	H4351 →
וּמֹ֣לְדֹתַ֔יִךְ	u.Mo.le.do.Ta.yikh	and birth<s> your	H4138 →
מֵאֶ֖רֶץ	me.'E.retz	[were] from [the] land of	H776 →
הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֑י	ha.ke.na.'a.Ni	the Canaanite[s]	H3669 →
אָבִ֥יךְ	'a.Vikh	father your	H1 →
הָאֱמֹרִ֖י	ha.'e.mo.Ri	[was] <the> Amorite	H567 →
וְאִמֵּ֥ךְ	ve.'i.Mekh	and mother your	H517 →
חִתִּֽית׃	chi.Tit	[was] a Hittite	H2850 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 8:44
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him.…
leads to
- Acts 13:10
  and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
- 1 John 3:12
  Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
- 1 John 3:8–10
  The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the…
- 2 Corinthians 11:3
  I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
- Revelation 12:9
  And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Through
Nehemiah 9:7
You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
leads to
- Genesis 11:31
  And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan.…
- Genesis 17:5
  No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
Through
Ezekiel 16:45
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father…
leads to
- Zechariah 11:8
  And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.