Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 16:11
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
11. On bracelets, cf. Gen 24:22; Gen 24:47. On chain or necklace, Gen 41:42; Pro 1:9; Pro 3:3.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
If the inventory of this virgins goods given to her were hitherto of such things as were needful for her comfort, now follows a particular of what served for state and magnificence, as the phrase Job 40:10; it also expresseth the bravery of a bridegroom, Isa 61:10; the curiosity and exactness wherewith such do dress themselves.
I put, Heb. I gave, i.e. freely.
Bracelets; which usually were of gold, as appears, Gen 24:22, and presents made of these bespeak greatest respects.
A chain of gold, in token of honour and authority, Gen 41:42; Dan 5:16.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
11. The marriage gifts toRebekah (Gen 24:22; Gen 24:47).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I decked thee also with ornaments,…. The Targum interprets this of the ornament of the words of the law; see Pr 1:8; but may be as well understood of good works done in obedience to them, from a right principle, and to right ends; which adorn professors of religion, their profession, and the doctrines of Christ, which they profess, 1Ti 2:9; or rather the graces of the Spirit, which are all of them very ornamental to the saints, as faith, hope, love, humility, c. and are in the sight of God of great price, 1Pe 3:3
and I put bracelets upon thine hands; which the Targum also explains of the law, written on two tables of stone, and given by the hands of Moses; the words of which, as Jarchi says, were put one against another, five against five; “hands” being the instruments of action may denote good works, which the Lord enables his people to perform; and which appear beautiful, as hands with bracelets on them, when they spring from love, are done in faith, and with a view to the glory of God:
and a chain on thy neck; this the Targum understands of sanctification, paraphrasing it,
“and with the holiness of my great name I sanctified you;”
and may be applied to the graces of the Spirit, which are as a chain, whose links are inseparably joined together; for, where one grace is, there are all the rest, faith, hope, charity, c. see So 1:10 or else to the blessings of grace, which also are linked together, and cannot be parted; where the one is, the other are likewise, Eph 1:3 Ro 8:30; and both graces and blessings make the saint very beautiful.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(11-14) In these verses the Divinely-given prosperity and glory of Israel is set forth under the sustained figure of the ornaments and food of a royal eastern bride. The various particulars mentioned are familiar to all readers of the Scripture histories. The latter part of Eze. 16:13 and Eze. 16:14 evidently refer to the times of David and Solomon, when the kingdom of Israel extended from the Euphrates to the river of Egypt, and very many of the surrounding kingdoms were made tributary. Israel then was renowned among the heathen, but its glory was pre-eminently as the nation of Jehovah, through my comeliness which I had put upon thee.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 16:11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
Ver. 11. I decked thee also with ornaments. ] See Eze 16:7 ; such as render thee amiable and admirable. Christ himself, who was not moved at all with the offer of all the world’s good, Mat 4:9-10 confesseth himself ravished with them. Son 4:9
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I put: Gen 24:22, Gen 24:47, Gen 24:53
and a: Lev 8:9, Est 2:17, Isa 28:5, Lam 5:16, Rev 2:10, Rev 4:4, Rev 4:10
a chain: Gen 41:42, Pro 1:9, Pro 4:9, Son 1:10, Son 4:9, Isa 3:19, Dan 5:7, Dan 5:16, Dan 5:29,
forehead: Heb. nose, Gen 24:22, *marg. Isa 3:21,
ear-rings: Gen 35:4, Exo 32:2, Exo 35:22, Num 31:50, Jdg 8:24, Job 42:11, Pro 25:12, Hos 2:13
Reciprocal: Psa 73:6 – as a chain Eze 23:42 – bracelets
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 16:11. No ornaments of jewelry could be too good or costly for the woman whom a man loves, who has given herself to him and who has merged her being with his in the most intimate and sacred relation possible to the human body.