19<\/strong>. a sweet savour<\/em> ] See on ch. Eze 6:13<\/span>. The words “ and<\/em> thus it was<\/em> ” emphasize what was done, with a tone of reprobation.<\/p>\n Allusion is here made to some rite like the Roman Lectisternia, in which public tables were set forth for feasts in honor of idols.<\/P><\/p>\n My meat also; <\/B>the bread, all that was necessary and proper for thy sustentation in general, which I gave thee, thou hast fed thy paramours withal. <\/P> Fine flour, <\/B>& c: here are particularly recounted the things God gave, and this adulteress misemployed, both literally and mystically; for I doubt not the Jews were lavish of the fruits of the Divine bounty, bestowing them both on adulterers and on idols. <\/P> For a sweet savour; <\/B>to reconcile the idol, or to prolong the favour of the idol, or to give a pleasing entertainment to their adulterers, or to provide for the idolatrous priests and their families, which could spend all this, though the idol knew not of it. <\/P> Thus it was; <\/B>all which is self-evident, plain, and needs no proof; it is undeniable. <\/P> <\/p>\n 19. My meat . . . I gave<\/B> (Ho2:8<\/span>). <\/P> set it before them<\/B>as aminchah<\/I> or “meat offering” (Le2:1<\/span>). <\/P> a sweet savour<\/B>literally,”a savor of rest,” that is, whereby they might bepropitiated, and be at peace (“rest”) with you; howridiculous to seek to propitiate gods of wood! <\/P> thus it was<\/B>The factcannot be denied, for I saw it, and say it was so, saith Jehovah.<\/P><\/p>\n My meat also which I gave thee<\/strong>,…. Or “my bread” i; a general name for all eatables. The Targum renders it,<\/p>\n “my good things.”<\/p>\n The Jews apply it to the manna, which, they say, descended the same day the molten calf was made, and they set it before it. This interpretation Jarchi and Kimchi make mention of; it includes what follows:<\/p>\n fine flour, and oil, and honey, [wherewith] I fed thee<\/strong>; for the land of Canaan was a land of wheat, of which fine flour was made; and of olives, from whence was the best oil; and a land flowing with milk and honey; and which was given by the Lord, and so he might be said to feed them with them: and instead of glorifying him, and being thankful for them, and using them in the manner they ought,<\/p>\n thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour<\/strong>; that is, they made a meat offering of their fine flour, oil, and honey, and set it before their idols; to gain their favour and good will; to appease them, and render them propitious; supposing it would be acceptable unto them; all these things were used in meat offerings and sacrifices unto the Lord, excepting honey, and that was forbid; but was in use among the Gentiles; see Le 2:1<\/span>;<\/p>\n and [thus] it was, saith the Lord God<\/strong>; all this idolatry, ingratitude, and folly, have been committed; it is most notorious, there is no denying it; I, who am the Lord God omniscient, affirm it. The Targum puts it by way of question, and even of astonishment and admiration,<\/p>\n “are not all these things done, saith the Lord God!”<\/p>\n i “et panem meum”, V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Starckius.<\/p>\n 19<\/strong>. <\/strong> Meat <\/strong> Literally, food, <\/em> or bread <\/em> (Lev 21:6<\/span>). Even the sacred sacrificial food had been used for idolatrous purposes. <\/p>\n Honey <\/strong> This may have been a heathen offering; it was not used in the later Israelitish ritual (Lev 2:11<\/span>). Polychrome Bible.<\/p>\n “My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a sweet savour. And thus it was, says the Lord Yahweh.”<\/p>\n All the things which Yahweh had given them they passed on to their idols. The bread on which they had fed abundantly, and the luxury food which He had given them to enjoy, a far cry from the hunger and poor food they had known in the wilderness before they received the manna (Exo 16:3<\/span>), these they offered, not in thanksgiving to Yahweh, but as a sweet savour to their new gods. God had fulfilled all His promises to them and they had thanked Him by offering His abundance to their ‘lovers’.<\/p>\n ‘And thus it was, says the Lord Yahweh.’ Thus it was, that was the real situation. This was God’s final summary on their behaviour. All the things He had given them, luxury food, luxury clothing, luxury jewellery, gold and silver and ornaments, all the things He had piled on them in His grace and goodness, they were giving to His ‘rivals’. That was how they had behaved, and were behaving. Could there be anything worse? Yes, there could. Worse was to follow.<\/p>\n Eze 16:19<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>And thus it was, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> Houbigant begins the next verse with this clause, which he reads thus; Nay, moreover, saith the Lord God; <\/em>and he ends the 20th verse with the word devoured, <\/em>and begins the 21st verse thus, Was it a small matter for thee to have played the harlot, that thou must also slay my children, and deliver them to be consecrated unto them? <\/em>The allusion here seems to be to the horrid sacrifices of Moloch. <\/p>\n Eze 16:19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, [wherewith] I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and [thus] it was, saith the Lord GOD.<\/p>\n Ver. 19. My meat also thou hast even set it before them.] Either as consecrated to them, or otherwise to be consecrated by them, which made Daniel so scrupulous of meddling with the king’s meat. Eze 1:8 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thus it was.<\/strong> ] Just so, and no otherwise, however thou would palliate the business, and art ready to put me to my proofs. as <\/em> Jer 2:35 <\/p>\n meat. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6, for all kinds of food. <\/p>\n for a sweet savour. Reference to Pentateuch. A legal phrase, found only in Ezekiel outside the Pentateuch. But in Ezekiel four times: via Eze 6:13; Eze 16:19; Eze 20:28, Eze 20:41. See notes on Gen 8:21. Lev 1:9. App-92. <\/p>\n thus it was = [so] it became. <\/p>\n Eze 16:19-22<\/p>\n Eze 16:19-22<\/p>\n “My bread also, which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savor; and thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah. Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters which thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter, that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them? And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast weltering in thy blood.”<\/p>\n “Before them for a sweet savor …” (Eze 16:19). These were food offerings to idols.<\/p>\n “To pass through the fire to them …” (Eze 16:20-21). This is a reference to the horrible infanticide identified with the worship of Molech, a pagan practice that continued throughout the greater part of Israel’s history, even some of their kings making their sons “pass through the fire to Molech.”<\/p>\n “Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth …” (Eze 16:22). Matthew Henry has an extensive analysis of this whole long paragraph (Eze 16:15-35).<\/p>\n I. Causes of Israel’s sin.<\/p>\n A. They grew proud (Eze 16:15).<\/p>\n B. They refused to remember (Eze 16:22).<\/p>\n C. They were weak in heart (Eze 16:30).<\/p>\n II. Particulars of their sins.<\/p>\n A. They worshipped every idol they heard of (Eze 16:15).<\/p>\n B. They lavished their God-given wealth on their idols (Eze 16:16; Eze 16:18).<\/p>\n C. They made idols from gold God had given them (Eze 16:17).<\/p>\n D. They served idols with the wealth God gave them (Eze 16:18).<\/p>\n E. They sacrificed their children to Molech (Eze 16:20).<\/p>\n F. They even built shrines for their idols (Eze 16:23-25).<\/p>\n III. Aggravations of their Guilt.<\/p>\n A. They even worshipped the idols of those nations which were their enemies (Eze 16:28).<\/p>\n B. God rebuked them, but still they continued in the same sins (Eze 16:27).<\/p>\n C. They spent much money on their idols (Eze 16:31-34).<\/p>\n Later in this study of the paragraph, we shall refer to this outline.<\/p>\n meat: Eze 16:13, Deu 32:14-17, Hos 2:8-13 <\/p>\n a sweet savour: Heb. a savour of rest, Gen 8:21, *marg. <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Num 28:2 – for a sweet savour unto me Deu 32:38 – eat the fat Eze 20:28 – their sweet Eze 23:41 – whereupon<\/p>\n Eze 16:19. Let us keep in mind that the prophet is comparing the unfaithfulness of a wife to her true and loving husband with the faithlessness of Judah toward God. She took the dainty foods which her husband had provided for her use, and set them before these images of men that she had made from the precious metals, in a make-believe performance of religious sacrifice such as was done usually before other idols.<\/p>\n My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, [wherewith] I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savor: and [thus] it was, saith the Lord GOD. 19. a sweet savour ] See on ch. Eze 6:13. 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