...bare. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and ! spread My skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness:...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest Mine. — God through Christ loved these people and espoused them. He caused the church to grow beautiful....

...of old in the desert, poor, naked, and abandoned, and God is, as it were, married to this people. " I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine." Here, too, therefore, the divine covenant is likened to a marriage ; a solemn oath at the marriage...

...outcast character. " 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...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest Mine." What a blessed view have we here ! Behold, Zion's Saviour performing the nuptials of an everlasting...

...mother an Hittite.... 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 swear unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine."...

...to Gn 49:10 may have been intended in Ez 21:32 ("until he come whose right it is"). (8) In Ez 16:8, "yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Yahweh, and thou becamest mine," we seem to have an allusion to Ex 19:5, "Now therefore, if ye will...

...' " (v. 6). He took care of her, and when she grew up and came to "the time of love" he covered her nakedness. "Yea. I sware unto thee, and entered into...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine" (v. 8). He washed her, cleaned the blood from her, anointed her with oil, etc., etc. The political...

...implies marriage may be found in Ezekiel 16:8, where the Lord tells him "behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered...sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee . . . and thou becamest mine." Robertson Smith, in his Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, states...

...Then verse 8 says, "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...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine." The husband takes his bride, and his garments cover her nakedness, spiritually as well as physically....

...Ezekiel 16:8 says, "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...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine." According to the context of the chapter, this verse refers to the exodus and the time thereafter. Out...

...upon thés, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spiead my skirt over thee, and covered'thy nakedness : yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine. 9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed...