Ezekiel 45

Ezekiel 45:2

In every street - Idol temples were in every street; both in Jerusalem and her cities.

Ezekiel 45:3

At every head of the way - Not content with what was done in the city, she built her idol temples in the country, wherever it was likely passengers would come.

Ezekiel 45:4

Great of flesh - Naturally of a big, make, and men of great stature.

Ezekiel 45:8

How weak - Unstable, like water. An imperious woman - A woman, that knows no superior, nor will be neither guided nor governed.

Ezekiel 45:9

Not as an harlot - Common harlots make gain of their looseness, and live by that gain; thou dost worse, thou lavishest out thy credit, wealth, and all, to maintain thine adulterers.

Ezekiel 45:12

Contrary - Here we may see, what the nature of men is, when God leaves them to themselves: yea, tho’ they have the greatest advantage, to be better, and to do better.

Ezekiel 45:16

Blood - Thou gavest the blood of thy children to idols in sacrifice; I will give thee thine own blood to drink.

Ezekiel 45:20

My jealousy - The jealousy whereto you have provoked me, will never cease, ’till these judgments have utterly destroyed you, as the anger of an abused husband ceases in the publick punishment of the adulteress. No more angry - I will no more concern myself about thee.

Ezekiel 45:22

The mother - Old Jerusalem, when the seat of the Jebusites, or the land of Canaan, when full of the idolatrous, bloody, barbarous nations. Her daughter - Jerusalem, or the Jews who are more like those accursed nations in sin, than near them in place of abode.

Ezekiel 45:23

Thou - The nation of the Jews. Thy mother’s daughter - As much in thy inclinations, as for thy original. Loatheth - That was weary of the best husband.

Ezekiel 45:24

Thine elder sister - The greater for power, riches, and numbers of people. Her daughters - The lesser cities of the kingdom of Israel. Thy left hand - Northward as you look toward the east. Thy younger sister - Which was smaller and less populous. Thy right hand - Southward from Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 45:25

Not walked after their ways - For they, all things considered, were less sinners than thou. Nor done - Their doings were abominable, but thine have been worse.