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Ezekiel 16:45

Ezekiel 16:45

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Thou [art] thy mother's daughter,.... Exactly like her; they that have known the one must know the other. The Targum is,"wherefore art thou become the daughter of the land of Canaan, to do according to the works of the people?'

'that loatheth her husband and her children; a true character of an adulteress; and which agrees both with the mother the Canaanites, and with the daughter the Jews; who both despised, rejected, and forsook God their husband, Creator, and lawgiver, and sacrificed their children to idols; see Eze 16:20;and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters; the true genuine sister of them, Samaria and Sodom after mentioned; being not only allied to them in blood, more nearly to the one more remotely to the other, but exceedingly alike in manners, religion, and worship:which loatheth their husbands and their children; as before:your mother [was] an Hittite, and your father an Amorite; these the Israelites succeeded in their land, and followed their customs;See Gill on "Eze 16:3".

The Targum is,"was not your mother Sarah among the Hittites? and she did not do according to their works; and your father Abraham was among the Amorites, and he walked not in their counsels.'

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