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Ezekiel 16:10

Adam Clarke
Bible Commentary

I clothed thee also with broidered work - Cloth on which various figures, in various colors, were wrought by the needle.

With badgers'skin - See Exodus 25:6. The same kind of skin with which the tabernacle was covered.

Fine linen - בשש beshesh, with cotton. I have seen cloth of this kind enveloping the finest mummies.

I covered thee with silk - משי meshi . Very probably the produce of the silk-worm.

Albert Barnes
Notes on the Whole Bible

Badgers‘ skin - Probably the skin of the dolphin or dugong (Exodus 25:5 note).

Silk - For a robe, a turban, or (as gauze) for a transparent veil; the derivation of the word in the original is much disputed.

Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary
In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.