Reading for January 12th

Read Ezekiel 16.1-5. In 16.1-63: The allegory of Jerusalem as God's adulterous wife. Compare Hosea's marriage to Gomer, whom he charged with harlotry to symbolize Israel's unfaithfulness to God (Hos 1-3; compare Jer 2-3). Ezekiel portrays Jerusaelm as an unwanted baby who, like many female babies in pre-industrial cultures is cast off to die as an economic liability. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite: Ezekiel believes that a mixture of Amorite or Syrian peoples and Hittites or Anatolian peoples populated Canaan before Israel emerged. Jerusalem was in Canannite (Jebusite) hands prior to David's conquest. The Jebusite population was never destroyed. Comments or Questions..