Ezekiel 16:32 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 16:32

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

KJV

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ASV

A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

WEB

You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband!

YLT

The wife who committeth adultery--Under her husband--doth receive strangers.

DBT

O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.

About this book

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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Jeremiah 2:28
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Isaiah 57:8
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
Ezekiel 23:45
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Hosea 3:1
Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

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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 ( Ps. xxv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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