How that when the Lord first came to us, we were polluted because of our sins. Start your free trial today! 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 And in all thy abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when you were naked and bare, and you were polluted in your own blood ( Ezekiel 16:20-22 ). What were the particulars of it. And when she had been there with Solomon, she said, "Oh, I heard, but I did not believe. 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. And justly will that beauty, that excellency, at length be made the object of the loathing of others which men have made the matter of their own pride. How came a virgin so well taught, so well educated, to be debauched? 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 ). Ezekiel 16:6 (Recite to Stop Bleeding) / 24" x 47.5". 1. And those that dont probably never will. The Blood Verse is found in the Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 16, Verse 6. Note, The strength of men's lusts is an evidence of the weakness of their hearts; they have no acquaintance with themselves, nor government of themselves. That righteousness that is ours is that which God has imputed to us through our faith in Jesus Christ. Now, this is all a foreshadowing of the relationship of Jesus Christ to His church. which intimates that there were those who made a small matter of it, and turned it into a jest. 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. To stop the bleeding they would quote this verse. I know this sounds crazy, but they believed in healing powers of the earth. This charm is used in a variety of ways, generally spoke three times over the person who is suffering the bleeding. 6. The Deserted Newborn2. Entering into that covenant relationship where God claimed them as His own, as His bride. 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 ). Behold, I have a couple of daughters that are virgins, I'll turn them over to you. This implies something more than "the poverty of the people in the wilderness attached to Egypt" (Hitzig). In a matter of hours, the bleeding stops, after which the process of inflammation begins, which is a complex, multi-stage reaction of the body. mistixs Follow Master Age: 26 So I heard of a tradition in which you recite Ezekiel 16:6 three times, followed by the name of the person bleeding, to stop bleeding in a human or animal. Did you know that there are some outstanding Christians that are running for the school boards? NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. They forget how that God watched over the early colonists. "I shod thee with badger skins." (LogOut/ Ezekiel 16:6. But, 1. In the latter case, the state of blood and defilement is made the very cause of life, because it called forth the pity of Him who gave life. 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. Posted on October 18, 2016 by Stacey Lynn. Just because it seems out of sorts, doesnt mean I can discard it and wipe it from my very own slate. 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. And the old miner that was with us reached in and got out a little pack of salt and poured it all over. Naked and bare are figurative expressions for still destitute of either clothing or ornaments. The Assyrians. And what God gives us the use of he still retains a property in. Genesis 30:32; alluding to garments spotted with the flesh by adulterers. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. Now every Christian ought to be out voting. Because it is a shameful scandalous sin for those that have joined themselves to the Lord to join themselves to an idol. Note, The children of parents that are members of the visible church are to be looked upon as born unto God, and his children,; as such, and under that character, we are to love them, and pray for them, bring them up for him, and, if he calls for them, cheerfully part with them to him; for may he not do what he will with his own? Because it is the violation of a marriage-covenant with God, forsaking him and embracing the bosom of a stranger; it is giving that affection and that service to his rivals which are due to him alone. The Jewish nation, by leaving their own God, and doting on the gods of the nations round about them, had made themselves mean and despicable in the eyes even of their heathen neighbours; much more was their beauty abhorred by all that were wise and good, and had any concern for the honour of God and religion. What were the aggravations of this sin. 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. They all heard of your beauty." Change). I do not believe the day is far off. There is nothing that makes us spiritually acceptable. I dont remember where I learned it. 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 they said, "You're a stranger. See how fond they were of their idols, that they would part with that which was given them for the necessary subsistence of themselves and their families to honour them with, which may shame our niggardliness and strait-handedness in the service of the true and living God. g "non eventurae sunt [tales scortationes], nec erit [qui sic scortetur]", Piscator. 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. 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. Ezekiel 16:6 New International Version 6 "'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!"[ a] Read full chapter Footnotes Ezekiel 16:6 A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts repeat and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, "Live!" 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. 8 " 'And I passed by you . 16:6 When I passed by - God here speaks after the manner of men. I suppose, in reality, it was more lived than learned. He was first their lover. Also, if youve ever heard of The Makers Diet, the author speaks at length about how he had to add certain nutrients to his diet, and they basically came from dirt. So it is against those who are inhabiting Jerusalem that God speaks. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson. There are some dogs that are just mean; you don't want to be around them. As, (1.) How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way [or every street], and you make your high place in every street; and you have not been as the harlot, in that thou hast scornest hire ( Ezekiel 16:28-31 ); You're even worse than a prostitute. And as God works in us by His Spirit, and as we are changed into the image of Christ, God looks at us and says, "Oh, you're perfectly beautiful." Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom you have borne unto me, and these have you sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Live - This is such a command as sends forth a power to effect what is commanded; he gave that life: he spake, and it was done. And I washed thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. God is talking about when He first saw the nation of Israel, Jerusalem, the people of Jerusalem. You've been worse than Samaria and worse than Sodom. He says that they were like a female baby, the child of a Hittite mother and an Amorite father, abandoned in a field with her umbilical cord still uncut, dirty and bloody and with no one to pity her. , when applied to the breasts, means to expand, lit., to raise oneself up. You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about nor happen. 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. 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. The unfaithfulness of Jerusalem (16:1-43). 4. So Israel has so turned away from the worship of God in their worshipping of these false gods. Janet, . 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 people for years have used this almost as a charm kind of a thing to stop bleeding. The most common method was to walk east and recite Ezekiel 16:6. He had said to Abraham, I will be a God to thee and to thy seed; they had the seal of the covenant in their flesh from eight days old; they were to bear God's name, and keep up his church; to murder them was in the highest degree inhuman, but to murder them in honour of an idol was in the highest degree impious. Like you said, when you believe the word of God, and you have faith in its words, you generally see results! You come to live with us, and now are you gonna judge us?" You were meandering through life. Note, In the account which impenitent sinners shall be called to they will be told not only of the mercies for which they have been ungrateful, but of the afflictions under which they have been incorrigible, Amos 4:11. This is that which is here all along represented (as often elsewhere) under the similitude of whoredom and adultery, 1. They had also been vexatious to Israel: "And yet thou hast played the whore with them (Ezekiel 16:28; Ezekiel 16:28); though they lived at a greater distance, yet thou hast entertained their idols and their superstitious usages, and so hast multiplied thy fornications unto Chaldea, hast borrowed images of gods, patterns of altars, rites of sacrificing, and one foolery or other of that kind, from that remote country, that enemy's country, and hast imported them into the land of Canaan, enfranchised and established them there." And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none follows thee to commit whoredoms: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to thee, therefore you are contrary. In thy blood - may be connected either with "I said" or with "Live." Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. (c) Being thus in your filthiness and forsaken by all men, I took you and gave you life: by which is meant that before God wash his Church and give life, there is nothing but filthiness and death. What was the sin of Sodom? They're always growling, always on edge. Ezekiel 16 - The Harlot Wife of Yahweh. 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. polluted in bloodbut Piscator, "ready to be trodden on. ". How came the people of God to be drawn away to the service of idols? And then the Lord goes on to declare, "I clothed thee with broidered work." Note, Those shame themselves that bring a reproach on their profession. And that's, of course, the whole thing, the rationale, the justification, "Well, you know, every man has a freedom to express himself however he desires, and no one has the right to dictate their moral standards on other people, you know.". They were haughty, they committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away [as I saw fit] as I saw good. The Scripture is Ezekiel Chapter 16, verse 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. All this would be at the direction of God himself, whose love for Israel was the reason for his anger with her (42-43). 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 ). For the Lord declared, "For it was perfect," that is your beauty. (2.) King James Version (KJV). Just the fashions of the world. Every penny has God's image upon it as well as Csar's. Nakedness represents deprivation of all the blessings of salvation with which the Lord endowed Israel and made it glorious, after He had adopted it as the people of His possession. You used it to make little images and idols, and you began to worship the gold and silver that I had blessed you with and prospered you with.How tragic it is when a person's life has been blessed of God and then they turn away from God and they begin to worship the gold and the silver that God has given to them, the possessions that God has given to them. 26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 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. e T. Bab. His it was.". Ezekiel 16:6 - to stop bleeding Leave a comment The Bible inspires quite a few of the verbal charms used in Ozark Folk Magic, some of which are exactly the same as those used by the Pennsylvania Dutch Brauchers. I have heard my grandmother pray it over people and seen results as well! They had forgotten the condition that they were in when God first came to them. 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. They forget it was God who made us strong. So God is saying that you were an outcast and there was no one to care for you. Burning them in the fire, casting them into the fire, or putting them into the arms of the little outstretched iron gods of Baal that were heated in the fire till they were red hot and then they would place their babies in those red hot arms and burn them as an offering unto the gods. And here are God's people committing this horrible sacrilege. 6And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you in your blood, Live!. Since in the Mosaic Law "blood" was especially defiling, so was it also the special instrument of purification. Ezekiel 16:6 KJV. This is much insisted on, Ezekiel 16:31-34; Ezekiel 16:31-34. Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathe their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite. Usually the customer pays the prostitute, but in the case of the prostitute Israel she paid the customer, so that she could multiply her immoral acts (30-34).According to Israelite practice, the punishment for an adulteress was to be stripped naked, paraded in public and then stoned to death. I have prospered you; I gave you gold and silver. 5 None eye pitied thee to doe any of these vnto thee, to haue compassion vpon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast borne. These things thou hast done. You became famous, became renown throughout among the heathen. Solomon admitted idolatry, to gratify his wives and their relations. yea, I said unto thee, in thy blood, Live!- Darby BibleAnd when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thy own blood, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yes, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. They thought, because they were so complimented and admired by their neighbours, that, further to ingratiate themselves with them and return their compliments, they must join with them in their worship and conform to their usages. But, of course, a city is always made up of inhabitants. Because it debauches the conscience, sears and hardens it; and those who by their idolatries dishonour the divine nature, and change the truth of God into a lie and his glory into shame, God justly punishes by giving them over to a reprobate mind, to dishonour the human nature with vile affections, Romans 1:23, c. It is a besotting bewitching sin and, when men are given up to it, they seldom recover themselves out of the snare. I have caused thee to . 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 ). One example is the following verse, from Ezekiel 16:6. A city as itself is not good or evil. But the children of Israelites were his by a further right; they were the children of the covenant, born in God's house. Men began to look for things to fill in their idle time. He says that the Jews erected houses of ill fame for themselves; and the language is mixed, because the Prophet, expresses simply the kind of harlotry of which he is speaking, and yet in the meantime mingles another figure; for he says that they took garments and made themselves altars. 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. But look how the nation today has turned its back upon God.On the Lord's day, it has become a day where people go out and worship their idols. He that knows all things knows it." 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 ). Misn. But, of course, it's out of context. They had sacrificed their children to their idols. Which were made of fine linen, silk, and broidered work; which God had given them, and they were richly clad with: and deckedst thy high places with divers colours; that is, with garments of divers colours; either they erected tents on their high places, made with these; or they covered their altars with them, which were on their high places for the ornament of them, as harlots deck their beds to allure their lovers; see Proverbs 7:16; or "thou hast made for thyself high places spotted" d; so the word is rendered in. He was literally dumping bits of earth he had ordered online into his smoothies and recipes. 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. So God said, "I've begun to turn you over to your enemies.". 3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. New King James Version (NKJV). NKJV, The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NKJV, Abide Bible, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version, NKJV, Woman's Study Bible, Red Letter, Full-Color: Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation, NKJV Study Bible, Full-Color, Comfort Print: The Complete Resource for Studying Gods Word, NKJV, Chronological Study Bible: Holy Bible, New King James Version, NKJV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture. For this they were justly chastised by the Philistines. "And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'. "It is my silver and my gold, though I have given it to thee." But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband! Thanks so much for reading and responding! And now is not Jerusalem in all this made to know her abominations? Ezekiel 18:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. Eze Ezk). d "et fecisti tibi excelsa maculosa", Montanus; "excelsa conspera maculis", Calvin; "latis maculis interstincta", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus. So I hit publish and, well, here we are . That is, they turned away from God and they began to worship every god of all of the people that were round about. And Engedi will be a place where they will be drying their fishing nets. They were a people notorious for idolatry, and for the most sottish senseless idolatries; they had of old abused Israel by their barbarous dealings, and of late by their treacherous dealings-were always either cruel or false to them; and yet so infatuated were they that they committed fornication with the Egyptians their neighbours, not only by joining with them in their idolatries, but by entering into leagues and alliances with them, and depending upon them for help in their straits, which was an adulterous departure from God. I enjoy reading about this. And the only way any of us could ever stand before God, surely not in our own righteousness, because our righteousness is as filthy rags in the eyes of God. 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 ). 255 likes. There is a Dr. Peterson, there is a George Rhoda, both of them outstanding born again Christians running for school board. Still it was quite naked and bare ( and are substantives in the abstract sense of nakedness and bareness, used in the place of adjective to give greater emphasis).