Ezekiel 16:39

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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
give	וְנָתַתִּ֨י ve.na.ta.Ti	H5414	to give · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 1st person common singular
hand	בְּיָדָ֗ם be.ya.Dam	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
down	וְהָרְס֤וּ ve.ha.re.Su	H2040	to pull down or in pieces · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
place	גַבֵּךְ֙ ga.beKh	H1354	the back (as rounded) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
down	וְנִתְּצ֣וּ ve.ni.te.Tzu	H5422	to tear down · conjunction + verb, niphal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
places	רָמֹתַ֔יִךְ ra.mo.Ta.yikh	H7413	a height (as a seat of idolatry) · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
strip	וְהִפְשִׁ֤יטוּ ve.hif.Shi.tu	H6584	to spread out (i.e. deploy in hostile array) · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
clothes	בְּגָדַ֔יִךְ be.ga.Da.yikh	H899	a covering · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
take	וְלָקְח֖וּ ve.la.ke.Chu	H3947	to take (in the widest variety of applications) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
fair	תִפְאַרְתֵּ֑ךְ tif.'ar.Tekh	H8597	ornament (abstractly or concretely · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
jewels	כְּלֵ֣י ke.Lei	H3627	something prepared · noun, common masculine plural construct
leave	יָנַח yânach	H3240	to deposit
naked	עֵירֹ֥ם 'ei.Rom	H5903	nudity · adjective, masculine singular absolute
bare	וְעֶרְיָֽה ve.'er.Yah	H6181	nudity · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Ezekiel 23:26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
Hosea 2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her…
Ezekiel 16:24-25 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Isaiah 3:16-24 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing…
Isaiah 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of th…
Ezekiel 7:22-24 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
Ezekiel 16:10-20 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with…
Ezekiel 16:31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an har…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:35-43

Adultery was by the law of Moses made a capital crime. This notorious adulteress, the criminal at the bar, being in the foregoing verses found guilty, here has sentence passed upon her. It is ushered in with solemnity, Eze 16:35. The prophet, as the judge, in God's name calls to her, O harlot! hear the word of the Lord. Our Saviour preached to harlots, for their conversion, to bring them into the kingdom of God, not as the prophet here, to expel them out of it. Note, An apostate church is a harlot. Jerusalem is so if she become idolatrous. How has the faithful city become a harlot! Rome is so represented in the Revelation, when it is marked for ruin, as Jerusalem here. Rev 17:1, Come, and I…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 16:39

thine eminent place--literally, "fornication-chamber" (see on Eze 16:24), the temple which Israel had converted into a place of spiritual fornication with idols, to please the Chaldeans (Eze 23:14-17). strip thee of . . . clothes-- (Eze 23:26; Hos 2:3). They shall dismantle thy city of its walls. fair jewels--literally, "vessels of thy fairness" or beauty; the vessels of the temple [GROTIUS]. All the gifts wherewith God hath adorned thee [CALVIN].

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 16:39

They shall strip thee also of thy clothes - thy fair jewels - Alluding to a lot common enough to prostitutes, their maintainers in the end stripping them of all they had given them.

John Gill on Ezekiel 16:39

And I also will give thee into their hand,.... Into the hand of their lovers and enemies that should be gathered against them, the Assyrians and Chaldeans, with others that joined them, as in Ezekiel 16:37; and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thine high places; the city of Jerusalem, the temple, and altars; and not only these, but even the high places and altars which were set up for idolatrous uses; all should be destroyed by the Chaldean army. The Targum is, "and they shall destroy thy walls, and thy high places shall be destroyed:'' they shall strip thee also of thy clothes; as persons commonly are when taken captives: and shall take thy fair jewels; or…

Dictionary and topics

Fornication — In every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law (Lev. 21:9; 19:29; Deut. 22:20, 21, 23-29; 23:18; Ex. 22:16). (See ADULTERY.) But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in…
Solomon, Song of — Called also, after the Vulgate, the “Canticles.” It is the “song of songs” (1:1), as being the finest and most precious of its kind; the noblest song, “das Hohelied,” as Luther calls it. The…
Garments · Called: Clothes — Called: Clothes
High Places · Licentious practices at — Licentious practices at
Lasciviousness · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 16:39

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:35-43

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 16:39

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 16:39

John Gill on Ezekiel 16:39

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 16:39

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:35-43

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 16:39

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 16:39

John Gill on Ezekiel 16:39

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Ezekiel 16:39

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 16:35-52

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 16:39-43

Rashi on Ezekiel 16:39