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. The word for "blood", which is thrice mentioned, is in the plural number, "bloods"; and denotes not the blood of circumcision, and the blood of the passover; for, or by which, the Lord had mercy upon them, and redeemed them, as the Targum and Jarchi interpret it; but the abundance of it, as upon a newborn infant; and the great pollution and distress in which the Israelites were, through the many murders committed on them by their enemies. To stop the bleeding they would quote this verse. Nowhere in this text is the intention to heal nosebleeds mentioned, nor any formula for invoking said healing. It all depends on what the people are that live within that city. The like things shall not come - The abominations reached the very utmost - nothing would hereafter be so bad as these had been. But, of course, a city is always made up of inhabitants. As a matter of fact, if my grandmother had even remotely thought that someone was coming from witchcraft, she would have distanced herself as far as possible from that person, and whatever it was they were trying to teach her. How came a virgin so well taught, so well educated, to be debauched? Genesis 30:32; alluding to garments spotted with the flesh by adulterers. The girl survived and grew, though without training or upbringing (6-7).Many years later, by which time the girl had reached an age when she might marry, the same traveller happened to see her again. When the conditions of a nation become so corrupt and immoral that men of this character feel a forwardness in expressing themselves publicly and begin to parade in public demonstrations, you know that you are at the end of the rope. I have heard my grandmother pray it over people and seen results as well! Spiritually, till the sinner is made sensible of his abject helplessness, he will not appreciate the provisions of God's grace. Who in times past you walked according to the course of this world. They forgot their beginning (Ezekiel 16:22; Ezekiel 16:22) "Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, how poor, and mean, and despicable thou wast, and what great things God did for thee and what lasting obligations he laid upon thee thereby." Nevertheless, [the Lord said,] I will remember my covenant with you [you have broken it, but I'm going to remember it] in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant ( Ezekiel 16:60 ). You come to live with us, and now are you gonna judge us?" "America, America, God shed His grace on thee," but you've turned your back on God, even as did Israel. No, it certainly doesnt sound crazy, thats actually a Native American thing, if Im not mistaken. (From King James Version:) "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"I have used it several times over the years saying it with Faith repeating at least 3 times to stop a heavy nosebleed, etc., and always, the By letting in them both pollute her streams. 7I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. For the Lord declared, "For it was perfect," that is your beauty. II. There ARE, in fact, a great many minerals in the earth that we simply cant get anywhere else. 27 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. A city as itself is not good or evil. Did you know that there are some outstanding Christians that are running for the school boards? If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. Now, at the end of the verse, where he says, they do not come, and it shall not be, some explain this part as if the Prophet had said that there was no instance like it in former ages, and there should be none such hereafter. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom ( Ezekiel 16:48-49 ). Interp. One prays for healing using different bible verses, a verse from Ezekiel 16 is used for healing humans or animals that has bleeding that can not be stopped, to stop the bleeding. and saw thee in thine own blood; keeping up the simile of a newborn infant, that has nothing done to it, but is all over covered with menstruous blood; denoting the wretched and miserable estate the Jews were in when in Egypt; when they were not only loathsome and abominable to the Egyptians, and ill used and unpitied by them; but were in danger of being utterly destroyed, and ready to expire. Nitimur in vetitum--We incline to what is forbidden. "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'. This is insisted upon here, and often elsewhere, as one of the worst instances of their idolatry, as indeed there was none in which the devil triumphed so much over the children of men, both their natural reason and their natural affection, as in this (see Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:5; Jeremiah 32:35): Thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, and not only made them to pass through the fire, or between two fires, in token of their being dedicated to Moloch, but thou hast sacrificed them to be devoured,Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:20. (l) "conculcatam", Pagninus, Montanus, Starckius; "praebentem conculcandam te", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell in thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwells at thy right hand, in the south is Sodom and her daughters. I did happen to read about it on a website called Appalachian History, where it is called The Blood Verse and attributed to Hillbilly Witchcraft. Genesis 31:35 Verse Concepts Every penny has God's image upon it as well as Csar's. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, OT Prophets: Ezekiel 16:6 When I passed by you and saw (Ezek. Today my gums were bleeding so I recited the verse, and I stopped bleeding. Follow Don't Forget The Old Ways on WordPress.com. 33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. Ezekiel 16:6 ESV "And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' NIV 'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, 'Live!' But I'm the one that rescued you and saved you and put My beauty on you. That day is coming. All rights reserved. Ornament of cheeks is youthful freshness and beauty of face. King James Version (KJV). Ezekiel 16:6-7. 16:6 When I passed by - God here speaks after the manner of men. Ezekiel 16:6 (Recite to Stop Bleeding) / 24" x 47.5". The Lord in looking at it looks behind it, and He said it was: pride, [it was] fullness of bread [prosperity], the abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters, and neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy ( Ezekiel 16:49 ). Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. I. 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 ( Ezekiel 16:52-59 ). 26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 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. Now the badger of the scripture, what that Hebrew word is today we don't know. Im sure there are many who know nothing about it. As they run up and down a lined field throwing balls to the cries and the cheers of their devoted followers. AudioBSB - GilbertBSB - HaysBSB - SouerBSB - Gilbert + Music. Now, these are the conditions that produced this blatant demonstration of these homosexual men. 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 (Psalms 25:3), wicked transgressors indeed. But don't do this evil to these men." 15 " 'But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. Isaiah 51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. He had created them, took them when they were nothing, made them great, made them beautiful. These idols were decked as children's babies are; and so the Syriac version, "thou hast made for thyself babies"; images like babies, richly dressed with their garments above described, such as the papists now have; and playedst the harlot thereon; committed idolatry on the high places; or "with them" f; that is, with the images and idols decked with their garments, which were set on those high places: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]; the like idolatries shall set be committed any more; and after the Babylonish captivity worshipping of idols was not practised by the Jews; nor is it to this day: or such "things have not come yet", and there "shall not be" the like g; the sense is, there never were such idolatries committed by this people before; and there hover shall be, or will be, the like afterwards. Our hearts are dark and empty and . They worshipped all the idols that came in their way, all that they were ever courted to the worship of; they were at the beck of all their neighbours (Ezekiel 16:15; Ezekiel 16:15): Thou pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. The nations who would inflict this disaster upon her would be the very nations whose favour she had tried to win by her prostitution (35-41). The Blood Verse is found in the Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 16, Verse 6. Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! 3. To stop the bleeding they would quote this verse. In our own strength we are indeed weak and bloody. And he usually is coming to the Lord more readily. 7 Grow up; I will make you like a plant of the field.". Ezekiel 16 - The Harlot Wife of Yahweh. There are some dogs that are just mean; you don't want to be around them. Shall we turn in our Bibles at this time to the sixteenth chapter of Ezekiel. They were weak in understanding and in resolution (Ezekiel 16:30; Ezekiel 16:30): How weak is thy heart, seeing thou dost all these things. The man then lovingly bathed her, clothed her, married her, and made her so beautiful that her fame spread to other nations. But is whoredom, is spiritual whoredom, a small matter? God sees you in Christ, and in Christ there is no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus. And now you've prostituted yourselves. 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 ). 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. The sense does not seem to me doubtful, because the Jews were so cast out, that no liberty remained to them, as when a woman becomes abandoned, she is the slave of all, and all use her disgracefully after that, since she is no longer her own mistress. 20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. "You haven't remembered how you were naked and had nothing.". Your email address will not be published. fol. Ezekiel 16:6 "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." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Ezekiel 16:6 Context There are a lot of people out there who think this stuff is nonsense, but I just couldnt throw it away! The ancient nation Israel began life in Canaan as a hated people of mixed blood and mixed culture. I am clothed tonight not in my own righteousness; I do not dare to stand before God pleading my own goodness before Him. Behold, I have a couple of daughters that are virgins, I'll turn them over to you. 45. It is a verse that people have used for years when someone is bleeding. Men began to look for things to fill in their idle time. Start for FREE. Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular, Preposition | second person feminine singular, Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | second person feminine singular, Verb - Hitpael - Participle - feminine singular, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular, Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed, Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular, Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem. Apparently, its a belief that goes back much further than my generation or my parents generation because, as I have spoken with people over the years, it seems to be common knowledge among mountain people. And you were exceedingly beautiful and you prospered into a kingdom. Ezekiel now reproves the Jews for the same vice. And when she had been there with Solomon, she said, "Oh, I heard, but I did not believe. Change). They forget how that God watched over the early colonists. Thanks so much for reading and responding! Ezekiel 16:6 Context. Their idolatry was the great provoking sin that they were guilty of; it began in the latter end of Solomon's time (for from Samuel's till then I do not remember that we read any thing of it), and thenceforward continued more or less the crying sin of that nation till the captivity; and, though it now and then met with some check from the reforming kings, yet it was never totally suppressed, and for the most part appeared to a high degree impudent and barefaced. And the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. Ezekiel 20:5-10 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; , Exodus 19:4-6 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. So God is saying that you were an outcast and there was no one to care for you. 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 ). Everyone has a right to believe what they feel right in their heart to believe, and I wont try to argue that with anyone. Now, these conditions of pride and prosperity and idleness of time. 16 You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. 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. New International Version (NIV). 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. "As you meandered according to the course of this world." Especially knowing that the Word is ALIVE and Gods Word accomplishes what it sets out to do. Ive never heard that aspect of it, nor have I heard that the gift has to be passed from a man, to a woman, to a man, back to a woman, and so forth. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. as they then sighed and cried because of their bondage, the Lord looked upon them with an eye of pity and compassion, and delivered them, Exodus 1:14; I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live: yea, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live; the Lord preserved them and saved them alive, when they were near to ruin, and delivered them by the hands of Moses, which was as life from the dead; and this he did of his own sovereign good will and pleasure, and not for any worth or merit, in them, any goodness or righteousness of theirs; for this he did when they were in their blood, pollution, and guilt; and which, that it might be observed, is repeated. The Israelites began betimes to turn their jewels into idols, when Aaron made the golden calf of their earrings. 2. Throughout the world they were talking of the beauty of the nation of the people. Because it is the corrupting and defiling of the mind, and the enslaving of the spiritual part of the man, and subjecting it to the power and dominion of sense, as whoredom is. 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, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. 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. "And you were by nature," Paul said, "the children of wrath, because you were obeying the lust of your flesh, the lust of your mind." And they smote the men with blindness so that they wearied themselves of trying to find the door. I know this sounds crazy, but they believed in healing powers of the earth. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. And he comes to the Lord quite readily. God here speaks after the manner of men. But thy father was an Amorite, thy mother a Hittite, referring to the nations that inhabited the land prior to the coming in of Abraham. Probably not very many. This implies something more than "the poverty of the people in the wilderness attached to Egypt" (Hitzig). 23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! It came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! Flowing in that way of the world. They built temples in honour of their idols, that others might be invited to resort thither and join with them in the worship of their idols: "After all thy wickedness of this kind committed in private, for which, woe, woe, unto thee" (that comes in in a sad parenthesis, denoting those to be in a woeful condition who are going on in sin, and giving them warning in time, if they would but take it), "thou hast at length arrived at such a pitch of impudence as to proclaim it; thou hast long had a whore's heart, but now thou hast come to have a whore's forehead, and canst not blush," Ezekiel 16:23-35; Ezekiel 16:23-35. 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 ). When the overplus is abused, it is just with God to diminish that which is for necessity. And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD ( Ezekiel 16:61-63 ). Like you have dogs that are good natured and dogs that are bad natured. To make matters worse, she participated in the pagan practice of offering her children as human sacrifices (20-22).As a prostitute uses brothels to attract her customers, so Israel built idol shrines throughout her towns and villages (23-25). Required fields are marked *. They not only worshipped the true God by images, as the ten tribes by the calves at Dan and Bethel, but they worshipped false gods, Baal and Moloch, and all the senseless rabble of the pagan deities. 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It seems to me that the Prophet intends this; for when he adds, that they committed fornication with them, he means doubtless with their lovers, and all besides; but this is not the sense of the words , bemoth telaoth. which intimates that there were those who made a small matter of it, and turned it into a jest. I suppose, in reality, it was more lived than learned. I have witnessed this working on nosebleeds, cuts, and more and have recited the verse over my own daughter when her nose was bleeding at a steady stream, and it stopped almost immediately. They were haughty, they committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away [as I saw fit] as I saw good. And so God took so much care and so much skill to clothe us with the righteousness which is of Jesus Christ through faith. 4. Not just throwing an old gunnysack at you and saying, "Dress up." You may unsubscribe from Bible Gateways emails at any time. And in looking for things to fill their idle time, they began to indulge themselves and their flesh. 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. It is his still, so that we ought to serve and honour him with it, and are accountable to him for the disposal of it. A lot of good men go to hell and a lot of bad men go to heaven. He that knows all things knows it." Janet, . Ezekiel 16:6 Context Crossref Comm Hebrew Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version "'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, "Live!" New Living Translation "But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. (By the way, I recommend that book, if you havent read it lol). 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. 17 You also took the fine jewelry I . 9Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. When he says high places with different colors, some refer this to ornaments; yet it may be taken in a bad sense, since those high places were stained, so that they could be distinguished from chase and modest dwellings; as if he had said, If you had been a modest woman, you had remained in retirement at home, as honest matrons do, and you would not have done anything to attract men to thee; but you has erected thy high places, like conspicuous houses of ill fame, as if a female, forgetful of modesty and delicacy, should set up a sign, and show her house to be open to all, and especially to her own adulterers. Access 50+ premium resources. And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live. III. I had a cousin one time whos baby became deathly ill and the old timey doctor that she took the child to gave her one thing to do let the child get DIRTY lol. "But you see, behind this scene there was the pride, there was the prosperity, there was the idleness of time. polluted in bloodbut Piscator, "ready to be trodden on. He was first their lover. This is referred to as the blood verse. You've been worse than Samaria and worse than Sodom. And thus we were when Christ came, but He washed us. Have you ever utilized the blood-stopping verse Ezekiel 16:6? Sign up now for the latest news and deals from Bible Gateway! And they were, because soft leather, they were worn for parties and for luxuries. To someone who has never seen this happen, it sounds a little spooky or irreligious. 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." Really not for hard labor or hard work out in the fields. Polluted - wallowing, "treading upon oneself.". Ezekiel 16:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful . Ezekiel 18:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. 3. As you know, I grew up in the heart of the Appalachian mountains in Eastern Kentucky. Just the fashions of the world. The washing of our lives through the blood of Jesus Christ. Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. The unfaithfulness of Jerusalem (16:1-43). They were fond of the idols of those nations which had been their oppressors and persecutors. "I shod thee with badger skins." Never was there such an instance of the degenerating of the paternal authority into the most barbarous tyranny as this was. As we go further in Ezekiel, we're going to find that a new there is an earthquake that is going to take place in Jerusalem that is going to create a new valley and is going to unlock an underground river, a spring that will begin to flow from Jerusalem down to the Dead Sea with such a supply of water that when it comes into the Dead Sea, the waters of the Dead Sea will be healed and there will be all manner of fish and all there in the Dead Sea. 8 " 'And I passed by you . "It is my silver and my gold, though I have given it to thee." Compare 2 Kings 23:7. If there is a man who lies with a menstruous woman and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow, and she has exposed the flow of her blood; thus both of them shall be cut off from among their people. They served their idols with the good things which God gave them for their own use and to serve him with (Ezekiel 16:18; Ezekiel 16:18): "Thou hast set my oil and my incense before the, upon their altars, as perfumes to these dunghill-deities; my meat, and fine flour, and oil, and that honey which Canaan flowed with, and wherewith I fed thee, thou hast regaled them and their hungry priests with, hast made an offering of it to them for a sweet savour, to purify them, and procure acceptance with them: and thus it was, saith the Lord God; it is too plain to be denied, too bad to be excused.
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