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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 16:9 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 16:9 |
King James |
Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
washed I thee--as brides used to pass through a preparatory purification (Est 2:12). So Israel, before the giving of the law at Sinai (Exo 19:14); "Moses sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes." So believers (Co1 6:11).
oil--emblem of the Levitical priesthood, the type of Messiah (Psa 45:7). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The usual purifications for marriage. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Washed - It was a very ancient custom among the eastern people, to purify virgins who were to be espoused. And I anointed - They were anointed that were to be married, as Rut 3:3. |
7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.