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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 16:17 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Eze 16:17 |
Strong Concordance |
Thou hast also taken [03947] thy fair [08597] jewels [03627] of my gold [02091] and of my silver [03701], which I had given [05414] thee, and madest [06213] to thyself images [06754] of men [02145], and didst commit whoredom [02181] with them, |
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King James |
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, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
my gold . . . my silver-- (Hag 2:8).
images of men--rather, "of the phallus," the Hindu lingam, or membrum virile [HAVERNICK], deified as the emblem of fecundity; man making his lust his god. English Version, however, is appropriate; Israel being represented as a woman playing the harlot with "male images," that is, images of male gods, as distinguished from female deities. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Possibly an allusion to the custom of bearing about shrines. Compare Amo 5:26; Act 7:43. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Images - Statues, molten and graven images. Commit whoredom - Idolatry, spiritual adultery. And possibly here is an allusion to the rites of Adonis, or the images of Priapus. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
And madest to thyself images of men - צלמי זכר tsalmey zachar, male images. Priapi are here meant, which were carried about in the ceremonies of Osiris, Bacchus, and Adonis; and were something like the lingam among the Hindoos. Herodotus, lib. ii, c. 48, 49, gives us an account of these male images: Πηχυαια αγαλματα νευροσπαστα, τα περιφορεουσι κατα κωμας ται γυναικες, νευον το αιδοιον, ου πολλῳ τεῳ ελασσον εον του αλλου σωματος. This was done at the worship of Bacchus in Egypt: and they who wish to see more may consult Herodotus as above. In this phallic worship the women were principally concerned. |
8 The silver [03701] is mine, and the gold [02091] is mine, saith [05002] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635].
43 Yea [2532], ye took up [353] the tabernacle [4633] of Moloch [3434], and [2532] the star [798] of your [5216] god [2316] Remphan [4481], figures [5179] which [3739] ye made [4160] to worship [4352] them [846]: and [2532] I will carry [3351] you [5209] away [3351] beyond [1900] Babylon [897].
26 But ye have borne [05375] the tabernacle [05522] of your Moloch [04428] and Chiun [03594] your images [06754], the star [03556] of your god [0430], which ye made [06213] to yourselves.