translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET study note

text: Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.


text: These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10 .


text: A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10 .


text: The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon.


text: The sacrifice of children was prohibited in Lev 18:21; 20:2 ; Deut 12:31; 18:10 .


text: Harlots suffered degradation when their nakedness was exposed ( Jer 13:22, 26 ; Hos 2:12 ; Nah 3:5 ).


text: Sodom was the epitome of evil ( Deut 29:23; 32:32 ; Isa 1:9-10; 3:9 ; Jer 23:14 ; Lam 4:6 ; Matt 10:15; 11:23-24 ; Jude 7 ).