And I washed thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. "I washed you from your pollution, and then," the Lord said, "I anointed thee with oil." Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? And as I see the things that are happening in the United States, San Francisco, Hollywood, Washington, D.C., I realize that the cup of God's indignation is about to overflow, and America will be judged of God.God said. Men arrive gradually at the height of impiety and wickedness. Of course, the guy winced like everything. Not just throwing an old gunnysack at you and saying, "Dress up." She is now in captivity, or hastening into captivity, and therein is reckoned with, not only for her lewdness (Ezekiel 16:58; Ezekiel 16:58), but for her perfidiousness and covenant-breaking (Ezekiel 16:59; Ezekiel 16:59): "I will deal with thee as thou hast done; I will forsake thee as thou hast forsaken me, and cast thee off as thou hast cast me off, for thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant." But now I have seen and it was not told to me half of the glory of your kingdom. The word course comes from the Greek word weathervane. But, where pride has got the ascendant in a man, he is in the high road to all abominations. Now, of course, the people of Israel had turned to all of these pagan gods, but worst of all, they began to follow the practice of the pagans of the land in offering their own children as sacrifices unto the pagan gods.

And they turned against Him. What did you do? Pride was the first sin that turned angels into devils, and the garden of the Lord into a hell upon earth. They were haughty and committed repulsive acts before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it. And my meat also which I gave thee, the fine flour, the oil, the honey, wherewith I fed you, you have even set it before these little images as a sweet savor: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD ( Ezekiel 16:18-19 ).

Now God by the prophet shows Jerusalem. ""I blessed you, I honored you, I prospered you. The only way that I can be accepted before God is to be clothed in that linen, pure and clean, which He has given to me. How far we have fallen when Superman replaces the Word of God on television on Sunday mornings. Second, the sin of selfishness related by Ezekiel (16:49) does not exclude the sin of homosexuality. "Henry's Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible". Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. Problem: Ezekiel described the sin of Sodom as selfishness: Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy (niv). A day for pleasure, a day for seeking after the flesh, a day of attempting to satiate the flesh in pleasure. Idleness, abundance of idleness, a dread of labour and a love of ease.

The prophet here further shows Jerusalem her abominations, by comparing her with those places that had gone before her, and showing that she was worse than any of them, and therefore should, like them, be utterly and irreparably ruined. "The word walked there is meandered, which means you were walking without any purpose or direction. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. No wonder God destroyed them. I see these as the fruit of the Spirit, whose adorning, Peter said, "let it not be the outward adorning by the wearing of fancy clothes and the putting on of jewelry and the fixing up of your hair, but that inward adornment of the meek and quite spirit, which in the eyes of the Lord is very, very valuable" ( 1 Peter 3:3 ).

And so God took so much care and so much skill to clothe us with the righteousness which is of Jesus Christ through faith.

And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. What was the sin of Sodom? Because you have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet you couldn't be satisfied. But I'll just tell you there's a couple Christians.So God speaks about Israel, their folly, and about the judgment that is going to come. So it is against those who are inhabiting Jerusalem that God speaks. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. They flattered themselves with a conceit that because God had hitherto continued his favour to them, notwithstanding their provocations, he would do so still. If less judgments would do the work, God would not send greater. And in looking for things to fill their idle time, they began to indulge themselves and their flesh. A nation that in its beginning understood its dependency upon God; a nation that was framed with a Constitution guaranteeing the freedom of worship of the people, a freedom to worship; a nation that placed upon its coins, "In God we trust"; A nation that placed within its national anthem the recognition of God and in its pledge to the flag acknowledged it to be one nation under God. So as the nation developed, the time came for love, and God came to the nation to receive the love, entered into a covenant, married them in that sense. Throughout the world they were talking of the beauty of the nation of the people. This was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom If we are to take this place literally, Sodom was guilty of other crimes besides that for which she appears to have been especially punished; in addition to her unnatural crime, She is charged with pride, luxury, idleness, and uncharitableness; and these were sufficient to sink any city to the bottomless pit. Because when you have that kind of a nature, you know, "Oh God, I need help," and you're coming to God for help. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. You became famous, became renown throughout among the heathen. A Tribute to Norman Leo Geisler (1932-2019), The Harvest Handbook of Apologetics (2019), A Review of, Billy Graham, Evangelism, Evangelicalism, and Inerrancy. And you took your broidered garments, and you covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense before them. Samaria and Sodom. Thus thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways." Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom,. Namely, the first after mentioned, the source and spring of the rest; the causes and means of which are declared; and the same, as is suggested, was the sin of Jerusalem: namely. ). And having run the gamut of kinky flesh and not finding any satisfaction, only a greater lust, they began to burn in their lust for each other. Who in times past you walked according to the course of this world. "You were not washed in water; you were not salted nor swaddled.". Flowing in that way of the world. 46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. How to Answer Critics pride; which was the sin of the devils, and the cause of their ruin; the sin of our first parents, by which they fell, and destroyed themselves, and their posterity; and is the prevailing, governing, sin of human nature: it has been the ruin of kingdoms and states, of cities and particular persons; a sin hateful to God, and destructive to man: fulness of bread; the land of Sodom was very fruitful before it was destroyed; it was like the garden of the Lord, Genesis 13:10; it brought forth plentifully, so that there was great fulness of provision, of all sorts of food, which is meant by bread: this, considered in itself, was not sinful, but a blessing; it was the Lord's mercy and goodness to them that they had such plenty; but it was their sin that they abused it; luxury and intemperance, eating and drinking to excess, are here meant; which led on to that sin, and kindled the flames of it, and were the fuel to it, which has its name from them; and, besides, this fulness of good things enjoyed by them was the source of their pride, and served to increase that, as before mentioned: and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters; or, "peace of rest" b; prosperity and ease, security and quietness, at leisure, and without labour; two words are used to express the same thing, and to denote, as Kimchi observes, the abundance of it: sloth and idleness, as they often arise from the goodness and fruitfulness of a country, said fulness of provision, so they are the cause of much sin and wickedness; for, if persons are not employed in some business or another, either of the head or hand, they will be doing evil: neither did she strengthen the hands of the poor and needy; though she had such abundance of food to supply them with, and so much leisure to attend to their distress; but her pride would not suffer her to do it; and she was too idle and slothful to regard such service; perhaps more is intended than is expressed; that she weakened the hands of the poor and needy, and cruelly oppressed them; which is often done by proud men, in great affluence and at leisure, which they abuse to bad purposes. In this sense, as a threatening, most interpreters take Ezekiel 16:53; Ezekiel 16:55. Your life was aimless before the Lord met you. Not that it will serve for a plea to justify Sodom, but it condemns Jerusalem, against which Sodom and Samaria will rise up in judgment. He had utterly destroyed Sodom for less sin than that of Israel. The sin of your sister Sodom was this: She lived with her daughters in the lap of luxuryproud, gluttonous, and lazy. Jerusalem was more polite, and therefore sinned with more wit, more art and ingenuity, than Sodom and Samaria could. You've scorn the payment. Their pride, the cause of their sins, is mentioned again (Ezekiel 16:50; Ezekiel 16:50): They were haughty, with the horrid effects of their sins, their abominations which they committed before God. Men began to look for things to fill in their idle time. He was first their lover. The kingdom of the ten tribes had been very wicked; and yet Samaria has not committed half thy sins (Ezekiel 16:51; Ezekiel 16:51), has not worshipped half so many idols, nor slain half so many prophets. 2. They give gifts to all whores: but you have given gifts to all of your lovers, and you've hired them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom ( Ezekiel 16:32-33 ). Was the sin of Sodom selfishness rather than homosexuality? Quritur, gisthus quare sit factus adulter? The righteousness which is of Christ through faith.Now, the difficulty is when a person does have more of a problem with his disposition, he is usually more conscious and aware of his need for help. Called them unto Himself. A city as itself is not good or evil. For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. That she was as bad as her mother, that is, as the accursed devoted Canaanites that were the possessors of this land before her. And they were going to grab him, and the angels said to Lot, "Stand back." Pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness. Sodom was well known for its greed and immorality, Samaria for its idolatry, but both cities now appeared righteous compared with Jerusalem.

But, of course, a city is always made up of inhabitants. They had forgotten the condition that they were in when God first came to them. "America, America, God shed His grace on thee," but you've turned your back on God, even as did Israel. This agrees with what Christ says. But it was a soft leather that was usually dyed purple and was the favorite of the young girls for their slippers. ARE THE CANONICAL GOSPELS TO BE IDENTIFIED AS A GENRE OF GRECO-ROMAN BIOGRAPHY? Now these initiating sins were, (1.) Those that are high may perhaps come to stand upon a level with those they contemn. The Defending Inerrancy initiative was founded by concerned scholars to combat the erosion of biblical inerrancy within the Evangelical community. And the old miner that was with us reached in and got out a little pack of salt and poured it all over. Rather it would be a free act of Gods forgiving grace (59-62). So God is saying that you were an outcast and there was no one to care for you. Please sign! That day is coming. Now, these are the conditions that produced this blatant demonstration of these homosexual men.

And that horrible condition in which we find Sodom when the angels of the Lord came and were staying in the house of Lot and the men of the city began to knock on the door saying, "Open unto us and send out those men that came into your house that we may know them." Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations ( Ezekiel 16:1-2 ). Lonzano, Menahem ben Judah ben Menahem De. She has already long ago been disgraced, and has fallen into contempt, among her neighbours (Ezekiel 16:57; Ezekiel 16:57): Before her wickedness was discovered, before she came to be so grossly and openly flagitious, she bore the just punishment of her secret and more concealed lewdness, when she fell under the reproach of the daughters of Syria, of the Philistines, who were said to despise her and be ashamed of her (Ezekiel 16:27; Ezekiel 16:27), and under the reproach of all that were round about her, which seems to refer to the descent made upon Judah by the Syrians in the days of Ahaz, and soon after another by the Philistines, 2 Chronicles 28:5; 2 Chronicles 28:18. And they smote the men with blindness so that they wearied themselves of trying to find the door. Do you believe the Bible is without error? Samaria is called the elder sister, or rather the greater, because it was a much larger city and kingdom, richer and more considerable, and more nearly allied to Israel. 56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, 57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. The standing waters gather filth and the sitting bird is the fowler's mark. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way ( Ezekiel 16:25-27 ). Did you know that there are some outstanding Christians that are running for the school boards? Isaiah 3:14,15 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. In this thou hast borne thy lewdness,Ezekiel 16:58; Ezekiel 16:58. Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. But I came by and I saw you polluted there in your blood and I said unto you, "Live.".

And thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. You were meandering through life. Behold, I have a couple of daughters that are virgins, I'll turn them over to you. (2.) (2.) The washing of our lives through the blood of Jesus Christ. She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen. 2014 Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe. I am the one that made this covenant with you. There are some dogs that are just mean; you don't want to be around them. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live ( Ezekiel 16:5-6 ). The umbilical chord was not cut. God sees you in Christ, and in Christ there is no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus. That she was worse than her sisters Sodom and Samaria, that were adulteresses too, that loathed their husbands and their children, that were weary of the gods of their fathers, and were for introducing new gods, a-la-mode--quite in style, that came newly up, and new fashions in religion, and were given to change. But don't do this evil to these men." Jerusalem had the temple, and the ark, and the priesthood, and kings of the house of David; and therefore the wickedness of that holy city, that was so dignified, so near, so dear to God, was more provoking to him than the wickedness of Sodom and Samaria, that had not Jerusalem's privileges and means of grace. Sodom has not done as thou hast done,Ezekiel 16:48; Ezekiel 16:48. And the area of the Dead Sea will no doubt become a verdant, beautiful valley again. They were haughty, they committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away [as I saw fit] as I saw good. Sodoms sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door. You were nothing; you were perishing. Graphics Kit for Raising Awareness, Search And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is in the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite ( Ezekiel 16:3 ). Well, I ask you to look at the United States today. And then God said, "I've given you to eat the fine flour and honey and oil. Read the Bible, discover plans, and seek God every day. But you did trust in your own beauty, and you played the harlot because of your renown, and you poured out your fornications on every one that passed by; his it was ( Ezekiel 16:15 ). And you were exceedingly beautiful and you prospered into a kingdom. And he usually is coming to the Lord more readily. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband! "Now ye are clean," Jesus said, "through the words that I have spoken unto you." These verses put the icing on the cake for Ezekiel's efforts to make her abominations known to Jerusalem. Note, Idleness is an inlet to much sin. You come to live with us, and now are you gonna judge us?" And you know what happened: I did away with them. The Sodomites were arrogant, affluent, selfish, and great sinners. The people of Sodom were not as bad as the people of Jerusalem (cf. As for the reasons why Jerusalem's sins were so much worse than those of her sisters Sodom and Samaria, they are resident in the privileges and obligations of the covenant. Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter. (1.) The King James translators guessed badger. There are some people that are just mean; you don't want to be around them. Nemo repente fit turpissimus--No man reaches the height of vice at once. How to Answer Critics, Standing up for the Bible before its too late. It was bad enough that those of Jerusalem were guilty of Sodom's sins, Sodomy itself not excepted, 1 Kings 14:24; 2 Kings 23:7. Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular, Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular, Sodom -- a Canaanite city near the Dead Sea, Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular, Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person feminine singular, To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer, Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Prophets: Ezekiel 16:49 Behold this was the iniquity of your (Ezek. Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou hast done. Like you have dogs that are good natured and dogs that are bad natured. Eze Ezk). I. Now God speaks of His work for the nation Israel, and that work of God's Spirit in making them great, making them beautiful, making them desirable, perfect in beauty. By using our website, you accept our use of cookies as described in our Privacy Policy.

Now verse Ezekiel 16:6 , interestingly enough, from old times was used as a verse to stop hemorrhaging or stop the flow of blood. Or, "I gave you shoes of badger skins." (2.) 3. Contrary to the traditional view, they were apparently condemned simply because they were selfish, not because they were homosexuals. And your fame, your renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty." We did not have the wisdom to learn from history, and the Christians by their inactivity have allowed these to be.We're soon going to be electing school boards and other officials in our community. Proverbs 21:13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

As they run up and down a lined field throwing balls to the cries and the cheers of their devoted followers. Neither hath Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and you have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done ( Ezekiel 16:50-51 ). And so He anointed our life with the Holy Spirit. And of thy garments you did take, and you decked your high places with divers colors, and you played the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. The queen of Sheba came from the south to see and to hear. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. Broidered work speaks of care; it speaks of skill. And as for thy nativity, in the day in which you were born thy naval was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all ( Ezekiel 16:4 ). 48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Click here to purchase this book. They broke the covenant and they gave themselves over to every god and idol and abomination. This is evident from several facts. It may be hoped that sinners will forsake their sins when they begin to be heartily ashamed of them. For thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and my silver, which I had given thee, and you made unto yourself images of men, and you did commit whoredom with them ( Ezekiel 16:16-17 ). Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou hast corrupted more than they in all of your ways ( Ezekiel 16:34-47 ). When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort unto them. The Jews are as like the Canaanites in temper and inclination as if they had been their own children.

Contrary to the traditional view, they were apparently condemned simply because they were selfish, not because they were homosexuals. 59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. That is, they turned away from God and they began to worship every god of all of the people that were round about. That if all of the Christians got out and voted for those Christians that are running for these offices, they could be elected to these offices and we could actually perhaps help guide the curriculum of our schools. In the meantime Jerusalem had to bear the shame of its immoral behaviour. Which, of course, is a very interesting thing. (3.) So Sodom and her daughters were proud and did things I hate in front of me. Or "Sodom was not mentioned, that is, the warning designed to be given to thee by Sodom's ruin was not regarded." ". After the overthrow of Babylon, the three regions of Palestine represented by these three cities would be restored and inhabited again (53-55). And that person, as far as standing before God, is no worse off than the person who has by nature a very pleasant disposition, who's easy going, and calm. "And so they, no doubt, in those days salted the baby as an antiseptic to kill the bacteria that might be upon the child. 51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.