| Geneva Study Bible And I put a jewel in thy nose, and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful {h} crown upon thy head. (h) By this he shows how he saved his Church, enriched it, and gave it power and dominion to reign. King James Translators' Notes forehead: Heb. nose Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 12. jewel on thy forehead-rather, "a ring in thy nose" (Isa 3:21). a crown-at once the badge of a bride, and of her being made a queen, as being consort of the King; the very name Israel meaning "a prince of God." So they are called "a kingdom of priests" (Ex 19:6; compare Re 1:6). Though the external blessings bestowed on Israel were great, yet not these, but the internal and spiritual, form the main reference in the kingly marriage to which Israel was advanced. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 16:1-58 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. | 
