Eze 16:3 | MHM | STEP | v. 3 : God reminds Jerusalem of her lowly origin. He says, Your birth and your nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite . This means that the people of Israel started out as strangers and outsiders, not as a powerful or noble nation. Their ancestors lived among the Canaanites and even worshipped other gods (Joshua 24:2 ).

‏ Ezekiel 16:3

v. 3: God reminds Jerusalem of her lowly origin. He says, Your birth and your nativity is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite. This means that the people of Israel started out as strangers and outsiders, not as a powerful or noble nation. Their ancestors lived among the Canaanites and even worshipped other gods (Joshua 24:2 ^a).