Ezekiel 16:3 meaning and explanation

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Ezekiel 16:3, Berean Standard Bible

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God tells Ezekiel to confront Jerusalem with a parable of her origins. The city is pictured as an abandoned newborn, and her ancestry is traced to the Canaanites, Amorites and Hittites, peoples already living in the land before Israel.

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