COMMENTARY:
: 12 She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. (2457 “scum” [chel’ah] means rust, impure deposit, filth, symbol of impurity of Jerusalem, encrustation of greenish corrosion, implying it to be an unclean substance, or disease.)
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: 11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. (5691 “inordinate love” [agabah] means lustfulness, immodest love, sensual desire or sexual desire for another.)
DEVOTION: The LORD gave Ezekiel another description of the … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 12 In you have they taken gifts to shed blood, you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD. (7911 “forgotten” [shakach] means to dismiss from the mind, stop remembering, to cease to care, ignore, or let it grow … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth MY sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. (3772 “cut off” [karath] means to cut down, to fell, to exterminate, root out, destroy, or … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 14 But I wrought for MY name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. (2490 “polluted” [chalal] means to be defiled, to profane, to be violated, dishonor, desecrated, treat with contempt, or be common and impure in the eyes of deity and /or society.… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 2 And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. (7235 “nourished” [rabah] means rear offspring, be or become great, be or become many, be or become much, be or become numerous or multiply.)
DEVOTION: The nation of Israel was likened to … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 4 Behold, all souls are MINE; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is MINE: the soul that sins, it shall die. (5315 “soul” [nephesh] means life, person, mind, heart, breath, living being, human being, appetite, emotions, will, activity of the character or inner being of man.)… Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and has done all these things he shall not escape. (959 “despised” [bazah] means contemptible, regard with contempt, to look down on with contempt, think lightly of or to trample with the feet.)
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: 8 Now when I passed by you, and looked on you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread MY skirt over you, and covered your nakedness; yea, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became MINE. (1730 “love” [dowd] … Read More
COMMENTARY:
: 1 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying (1697 “word” [dabar] means speech, saying, utterance, a communication that is most often spoken, but can come through other means, matter, or discourse.)
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