Friday, February 23, 2018
Reading for March 4th
Read Ezekiel 16.44-52
In charging that Jerusalem is like her mother who loathed her husband and her children,
God points to the sexual abominations of the nations who possessed the land before Israel
(Lev 18.24-30; 20.23; Gen 15.16).
God compares Jerusalem to Samaria, the elder sister to the north, and Sodom,
the younger sister to the south.
According to biblical tradition (2 Kings 17; Gen 18-19), both cities were destroyed for their sins,
but God states that Jerusalem's sins are even worse.
Comments or Questions...
In charging that Jerusalem is like her mother who loathed her husband and her children,
God points to the sexual abominations of the nations who possessed the land before Israel
(Lev 18.24-30; 20.23; Gen 15.16).
God compares Jerusalem to Samaria, the elder sister to the north, and Sodom,
the younger sister to the south.
According to biblical tradition (2 Kings 17; Gen 18-19), both cities were destroyed for their sins,
but God states that Jerusalem's sins are even worse.
Comments or Questions...
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