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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 16:4 - 16:4
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Israel’s helplessness in her first struggling into national existence, under the image of an infant (Hos 2:3) cast forth without receiving the commonest acts of parental regard. Its very life was a miracle (Exo 1:15-22).
navel ... not cut - Without proper attention to the navel cord, the infant just born is liable to die.
neither ... washed in water to supple thee - that is, to make the skin soft. Rather, “for purification”; from an Arabic root [Maurer]. Gesenius translates as the Margin, “that thou mightest (be presented to thy parents to) be looked upon,” as is customary on the birth of a child.
salted - Anciently they rubbed infants with salt to make the skin firm.