The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Blood” it comes from the Hebrew Word “dam” which means “blood.”
Ezekiel delivers an extended, vivid parable of Jerusalem as an ungrateful, unfaithful bride. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Ezekiel 16.
Ezekiel is instructed to cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, describing her birth, her father being an Amorite, and her mother a Hittite, describing how in the day she was born, her navel was not cut, neither was she washed in water, nor salted, nor swaddled, no eye pitying her, but she was cast out in the open field, to the loathing of her person, in the day she was born, yet He passed by her, and saw her polluted in her own “blood,” “dam” in Hebrew, and said to her, live. Ezekiel describes how He caused her to multiply as the bud of the field, and she increased and grew great, and became excellent in ornaments, He entered into a covenant with her, and she became His, He decking her with ornaments, putting bracelets on her hands, and a chain on her neck, and she was exceeding beautiful, and prospered into a kingdom, her renown going forth among the heathen for her beauty, yet she trusted in her own beauty, and played the harlot because of her renown, pouring out her fornications on everyone who passed by, taking her broidered garments and covering the idols, sacrificing her sons and daughters to them. Ezekiel describes how she has not remembered the days of her youth, when she was naked and bare, and was polluted in her blood, describing extensive judgment for her unfaithfulness, comparing her also to her sisters Sodom and Samaria, whose sins she has exceeded, yet closing with a remarkable promise, that He will remember His covenant with her in the days of her youth, and He will establish to her an everlasting covenant, and she shall know that He is the Lord, that she may remember, and be confounded, and never open her mouth any more because of her shame, when He is pacified toward her for all that she has done, this extended, uncomfortable but ultimately hopeful parable illustrating both the genuine depth of Israel’s unfaithfulness and the equally genuine depth of God’s covenant commitment despite it.
Ezekiel’s extended, uncomfortable parable, describing Jerusalem as an abandoned infant lovingly rescued and adorned, only to become an ungrateful, unfaithful bride, communicates covenant betrayal’s genuine emotional weight through vivid, deeply personal imagery. Its remarkable closing promise, an everlasting covenant despite such extensive unfaithfulness, reveals that God’s commitment ultimately proves more enduring and reliable than even the most severe human failure could overcome.
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