Ezekiel 16:33
They give gifts to all harlots, but thou give thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to thee on every side for thy whoredoms.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
32A wife who commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Cross References
Genesis 38:16And he turned to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me come in to thee, for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will thou give me, that thou may come in to me?
Isaiah 30:3Therefore the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isaiah 57:9And thou went to the king with oil, and increased thy perfumes, and sent thine ambassadors far off, and debased thyself even to Sheol.
Ezekiel 16:41And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women. And I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shall also give no wage any more.
Hosea 8:9For they have gone up to Assyria [like] a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.
Joel 3:3and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:16-35
Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. ( b. c. 593.) 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest… Read the whole commentary →