Ezekiel 16:8

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Summary

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

Thy time

And i

Ruth 3:9

I sware

General references

Ezekiel 16:32

Bible References

Thy time

And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.

For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.

But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:

Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.

I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.

Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.

When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.

You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--

And i

And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.

I sware

And say to them, This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I took Israel for myself, when I made an oath to the seed of the family of Jacob, and I gave them knowledge of myself in the land of Egypt, saying to them with an oath, I am the Lord your God;

You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.

And he said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, and Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the chiefs of Israel; and give me worship from a distance.

Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

Because the Lord your God is a God of mercy, he will not take away his help from you or let destruction overtake you, or be false to the agreement which he made by an oath with your fathers.

Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.

General references

The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!