57 before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the areproach of the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and of bthe daughters of the Philistines, who despise you everywhere.
58 aYou have paid for your lewdness and your abominations,” says the Lord.
59 For thus says the Lord God: “I will deal with you as you have done, who adespised bthe oath by breaking the covenant.
An Everlasting Covenant
60 “Nevertheless I will aremember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish ban everlasting covenant with you.
61 Then ayou will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for bdaughters, cbut not because of My covenant with you.
62 aAnd I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the Lord,
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Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Ezekiel 16:59.
Ezekiel 16:59-60
We are reminded that Almighty God does not tolerate the transfer of the honor and worship that is due Him to any other being or object. God’s jealousy could be likened to a husband’s love for his spouse. For example, in Ezekiel 16:59-60, God compares Israel to an unfaithful wife, but His jealousy is not about control, but instead about deep protective love, proclaiming,
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