Ezekiel 16:17
And you took your beautiful items, made of my gold and my silver, which I gave to you, and you made for yourself images of men, and you fornicated with them.
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Exodus 32:1Then the people, seeing that Moses made a delay in descending from the mountain, gathered together against Aaron, and said: “Rise up, make us gods, who may go before us. But as for this man Moses, who led us away from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has befallen him.”
Isaiah 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain, you have placed your bed, and you have ascended to that place to immolate victims.
Jeremiah 3:9And by the act of her fornication, she defiled the land. For she committed adultery with that which is stone and wood.
Ezekiel 16:11I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands and a necklace around your neck.
Hosea 2:13And I will inflict on her the days of the Baals, for whom she burned incense, and ornamented herself with earrings and necklace, and went after her lovers, and forgot about me,” says the Lord.
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 →