Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 16:4

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4. Israel's helplessness in her first struggling into national existence, under the image of an infant ( Hosea 2:3 ) cast forth without receiving the commonest acts of parental regard. Its very life was a miracle ( Hosea 2:3- : ). 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. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-ezk-16-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/ezk-16-4

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological