Reference

Ezekiel 16:3

And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
1

Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

2

Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

3

And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

4

And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

5

None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Literal Fulfillment

The verse uses highly metaphorical language to describe Jerusalem's origins, not a literal historical account of its inhabitants' direct parentage, thus it doesn't support literal fulfillment in a concrete, physical sense.

Prophetic Methods of Communication

The verse describes the origin of Jerusalem using a direct address from "the Lord God" to Ezekiel, but it does not detail *how* that message was communicated to Ezekiel (e.g., through a dream, vision, or audible voice).