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  COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 16-20
  by Chuck Smith
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Shall we turn in our Bibles at this time to the sixteenth chapter of
Ezekiel. The prophecy of Ezekiel, chapter 16.

Ezekiel declares,

Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause
Jerusalem to know her abominations (Eze 16:1-2),

So God is speaking out against Jerusalem. But, of course, a city is
always made up of inhabitants. A city as itself is not good or evil. It
all depends on what the people are that live within that city. So it is
against those who are inhabiting Jerusalem that God speaks.

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy
nativity is in the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy
mother a Hittite (Eze 16:3).

Now, before the children of Israel came to dwell in the land, the first
inhabitants of the land of Palestine were the Hittites and then also the
Amorites. And so Jerusalem... well, first of all, rather the Amorites
followed by the Hittites. But thy father was an Amorite, thy mother a
Hittite, referring to the nations that inhabited the land prior to the
coming in of Abraham.

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 (Eze 16:4).

Evidently in those days when a child was born, of course, the first
thing you do is you wash the child, and then evidently they salted the
child. This, no doubt, would be to kill bacteria, because salt is a
tremendous antiseptic as far as killing bacteria.

We were out in a group that were exploring for the lost Virgin Guadalupe
mine, and we were blasting away some boulders. And one of the fellows
that was with us, working with us, got hit by a piece of rock that had
cut off from the boulder when we were blasting it out, and cut his hand.
And the old miner that was with us reached in and got out a little pack
of salt and poured it all over. Of course, the guy winced like
everything. But he said, "I never go out without my bag of salt." He
said, "It\

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