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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 16:45 - 16:45
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mother’s ... that loatheth her husband - that is, God (“haters of God,” Rom 1:30); therefore the knowledge of the true God had originally been in Canaan, handed down from Noah (hence we find Melchisedek, king of Salem, in Canaan, “priest of the most high God,” Gen 14:18), but Canaan apostatized from it; this was what constituted the blackness of the Canaanites’ guilt.
loathed ... children - whom she put to death in honor of Saturn; a practice common among the Phoenicians.
sister of thy sisters - Thou art akin in guilt to Samaria and Sodom, to which thou art akin by birth. Moab and Ammon, the incestuous children of Lot, nephew of Abraham, Israel’s progenitor, had their origin from Sodom; so Sodom might be called Judah’s sister. Samaria, answering to the ten tribes of Israel, is, of course, sister to Judah.