Ezekiel 16:27

“Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, &c.] His chastising and correcting hand, to show his resentment at their sins, and bring them to a sense of them, and repentance for them: and have diminished thine ordinary [food]; their stated allowances, the common mercies and blessings of life they had been indulged with, but now were lessened; and particularly a famine was brought upon them, as well as they were deprived of other favours for their sins; God dealing with them as husbands with their wanton wives, who keep them to stricter allowance, and closer confinement, in order to check and tame them: and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the…”

“The consequent judgments, which, however, proved of no avail in reforming the people (Isa 9:13; Jer 5:3). delivered thee unto . . . Philistines-- (Kg2 16:6; Ch2 28:18-19). ashamed of thy lewd way--The Philistines were less wanton in idolatry, in that they did not, like Israel, adopt the idols of every foreign country but were content with their own (Eze 16:57; Jer 2:11).”

“Have diminished thine ordinary food - As a husband lessens the things which minister to the luxury of an unfaithful wife, so did the Lord cut Israel short in consequence of her unfaithfulness. Daughters - The small cities. The Philistines have left a permanent record of their supremacy in the name of the holy land - Palestine. It was a special shame to be subjected to so small a power as that of Philistia (see Isaiah 14:29); but the very Philistines were ashamed of Judah’s unfaithfulness, and were themselves truer to their false gods than Judah was to Yahweh. return to 'Top of Page'”

“I have: Eze 14:9; Isa 5:25, Isa 9:12, Isa 9:17 and have: Deu 28:48-57; Isa 3:1; Hos 2:9-12 thine: Chukkach "thy portion;" the household provision of a wife - food, clothes, and money. delivered: The Jews, under Manasseh, and the succeeding kings of Judah, made the temple itself the scene of their open and abominable idolatries, in addition to all their idol temples! which appears to be meant by "the eminent place," and "highplaces in every street," Eze 16:24. Allured by the prosperity of the Egyptians, they also connected themselves with them, and joined in their multiplied and abominable idolatries. And when Jehovah punished them by wars and famines, and by the Philistines, whose daughters…”