Old Testament: Ezekiel 16.31-34

To read the Bible in a year, read Ezekiel 16 on November 17, In the year of our Lord Christ 2024

By Don Ruhl 

As you know, men pay harlots, but Jerusalem had become so evil, so desirous of sinning, that as a harlot she paid others to sin with her: “You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment. You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband. Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry. You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite” (Ezekiel 16.31-34). 

Do not forget who you are. Do not go so deep into sin that you do things you never would have done before. 

Keep your eyes focused on the Lord. 

Questions from today’s reading and devotional: 

• Have you ever heard of a harlot paying men to come to her? 
• To what city did the Lord compare Jerusalem? 

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Don preaches with the Savage Street Church of Christ in Grants Pass, Oregon. 

Listen to his sermons here: GrantsPassChurchOfChrist.com