Ezekiel 16

Treated in 25 passages across the library.

  • 16:6 Then I passed by you and saw you thrashing about in your blood. There in your blood I said to you, "Live!" There in your blood I said to you, "Live!" 6
  • 16:9 Then I bathed you with water, washed the blood off you and anointed you with oil. 3
  • 16:10 I dressed you in embroidered clothing and put sandals of fine leather on your feet. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with costly fabric. 3
  • 16:60 Yet I myself will remember the covenant I made with you in your youth, and I will establish with you a covenant that is everlasting. 3
  • 16:8 Then I passed by you again and saw you, and you were old enough for love. So I spread the corner of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine. 2
  • 16:11 I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck. 2
  • 16:14 Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty. It was perfect because of my splendor that I had put on you, declares the Lord GOD. 2
  • 16:20 You took your sons and daughters, whom you had borne to me, and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough, 2
  • 16:63 so that you will remember and feel ashamed, and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, declares the Lord GOD. 2
  • 16:1 The word of the LORD came to me: 1
  • 16:2 Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices, 1
  • 16:3 and say, The Lord GOD says this to Jerusalem: You came from the land of the Canaanites; that is where you were born. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 1
  • 16:4 On the day you were born, no one cut your umbilical cord or washed you with water to clean you. No one rubbed you with salt or wrapped you in cloths. 1
  • 16:5 No one looked on you with pity or cared enough to do any of these things for you. Instead, you were thrown out on the open ground, because your life was despised on the day you were born. 1
  • 16:12 I put a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 1
  • 16:13 So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothes were of fine linen, costly fabric and embroidered cloth. You ate the finest flour, honey and olive oil. You became very beautiful indeed, and you rose to be a queen. 1
  • 16:15 But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to prostitute yourself. You poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by, and anyone could have you. 1
  • 16:16 You took some of your clothes and made colorful shrines for yourself on the high places, and there you prostituted yourself. Nothing like this has ever happened, and it never should. 1
  • 16:25 At the head of every street you built your lofty shrine and made your beauty something detestable. You spread your legs for everyone who passed by and multiplied your prostitution. 1
  • 16:47 You did not just walk in their ways and copy their detestable practices. As if that were not enough, you became more corrupt than they were in all your ways. 1
  • 16:49 This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, more food than they needed and careless ease, but they did not help the poor and needy. 1
  • 16:56 Was not your sister Sodom a byword on your lips in the days of your pride, 1
  • 16:61 Then you will remember your ways and feel ashamed as you welcome your sisters, both older and younger. I will give them to you as daughters, though not on the basis of your covenant. 1
  • 16:62 I will establish my own covenant with you. Then you will know that I am the LORD, 1

Open Word Bible

  1. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Adoption cites Ezek 16:6

    …for her son. God did not take us out of the water, but out of our blood, and adopted us. Ezek 16:6. He adopted us from slavery: it is a mercy to redeem a slave, but it is more to adopt…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.7 The Seventh Commandment cites Ezek 16: 49

    …‘any wine inflames lust;’ and fulness of bread is made the cause of Sodom’s uncleanness. Ezek 16: 49. The rankest weeds grow out of the fattest soil. Uncleanness proceeds from excess. ‘When…

  3. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    An exhortation to love God cites Ezek. xvi. 6

    …there was nothing lovely in us. “When thou wast in thy blood, I said unto thee, Live” (Ezek. xvi. 6). The time of our loathing was the time of God’s loving. We had something in us to…

  4. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Effectual calling cites Ezek. xvi. 6

    …is opposition. (iv.) We are in a state of pollution. “I saw thee polluted in thy blood” (Ezek. xvi. 6). The fancy coins earthly thoughts; the heart is the devil’s forge, where the sparks of…

  5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Ezek 16: 6

    …deserve nor recompense Christ’s love. We could not deserve it; for we were in our blood. Ezek 16: 6. We had no spiritual beauty to tempt him. Nay, we were not only in our blood, but we were…

  6. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    July cites Ezekiel 16:6

    …shines with serene splendour. July 7 “When I passed by thee, I said unto thee, Live.” (Ezekiel 16:6) Saved one, consider gratefully this mandate of mercy. Note that this fiat of God is…

  7. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Effectual Calling cites Ezek 16:6

    …worthy to partake of the heavenly calling than others, for we were ‘all in our blood.’ Ezek 16:6. What worthiness is in us? What worthiness was there in Mary Magdalene, out of whom seven…

  8. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Sanctification cites Ezek 16:9

    …3:3. We were in our blood, and then God washed us with water, and anointed us with oil. Ezek 16:9. Those trees of righteousness that blossom and bear almonds, can remember when they were…

  9. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    December cites Ezekiel 16:10

    …badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.” (Ezekiel 16:10) See with what matchless generosity the Lord provides for his people's apparel. They are…

  10. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of the way the saints hold communion with Christ as to personal grace cites Ezek. xvi. 14

    …saints are very beautiful, even perfect, through his comeliness, which he puts upon them, Ezek. xvi. 14, — “Behold, thou art fair, thou art fair:” particularly, that their spiritual light is…

  11. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 2 — Comparison Between the False Church and the True cites Ezek. 16:20

    …of his covenant. Hence the children who were born to them the Lord called his own (Ezek. 16:20), though, unless by special blessing, they in no respect belonged to him. So having…

  12. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 4, Chapter 16 — Pædobaptism cites Ezek. 16:20

    …sometimes declares that the children born to the Israelites are begotten and born to him (Ezek. 16:20; 23:37). For he undoubtedly gives the place of sons to the children of those to whose…

  13. Communion with God · John Owen

    Other consequential affections cites Ezek. xvi. 25

    …pleaded, any thing more or less than what God doth so describe in the church of Israel, Ezek. xvi. 25, and forwards. Hence was the Spirit of God in prayer derided; hence was the powerful…

  14. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    3.2 Degrees of Sin cites Ezek 16: 47

    …‘Ye have done worse than your fathers, your sins have exceeded theirs.’ Jer 16: 12; Ezek 16: 47. Some sins have a blacker aspect than others; to clip the king’s coin is treason; but to…

  15. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VI. Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation cites Ezek. 16:56

    …people of Sodom, and so looked upon them worthy to be overlooked and disregarded by them: Ezek. 16:56, “For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride.” Let not…

  16. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of June cites Ezek. 16:60

    …thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant" Ezek. 16:60 Notwithstanding our sins, the Lord is still faithful in His love to us. He looks back.…

  17. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    When the heart is disquieted by sin, speak no peace to it until God speak it cites Ezek. xvi. 60

    …it will beget a detestation of that sin or sins for which healing and peace is sought. So Ezek. xvi. 60, 61, “Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I…

  18. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    IX. Gracious affections soften the heart, and are attended and followed with a Christian tenderness of spirit cites Ezek. 16:60

    …of glory, when God should remarkably comfort her, by revealing his covenant mercy to her, Ezek. 16:60, to the end: “I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. Then thou shalt…

  19. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    X. Another thing wherein those affections that are truly gracious and holy, differ from those that are false, is beautiful symmetry and proportion cites Ezek. 16:61

    …yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.” As also in Ezek. 16:61, 62, 63. A true saint is like a little child in this respect; he never had any godly…

  20. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Covenant of Grace cites Ezek 16:62

    …distinction between God’s people and heathens. ‘I will establish my covenant with thee.’ Ezek 16:62. When the Lord told Abraham that he would enter into a covenant with him, Abraham fell…

  21. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd · David Brainerd

    Reflection I cites Ezek. 16:63

    …more, because of thy shame; when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done.” Ezek. 16:63. His religious affections and joys were not like those of some, who have rapture and…

  22. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites Ezek. 16.63

    …shame, when I am pacified towards them for all that they have done, saith the Lord God’ (Ezek. 16.63). Thus was my soul at this time, and, as I then did think, for ever, set at liberty from…

  23. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fourth Stage cites Ezek. 16:8-11

    …be to thee; he also wiped my eyes with his handkerchief, and clad me in silver and gold. Ezek. 16:8-11. He put a chain about my neck, and ear-rings in mine ears, and a beautiful crown upon my…

  24. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    July cites Eze 16:1-5

    …achieve. The prophet says that the branches of the vine are more useless than any others (Eze 16:1-5). The principle of God's choice is to take what all others reject—the fire-brand plucked…

  25. Till He Come · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Spiced Wine of My Pomegranate cites Ezek. xvi. 8-16

    …thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown.” (Ezek. xvi. 8-16. ) Ought not the mass of professors to confess the truth of this accusation? Have not the…