Ezekiel 16:33
They give rewards to all harlots; but thou gavest thy rewards to all thy lovers, and rewardedst them, that they might come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
32O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.
Cross References
Genesis 38:16And he turned aside to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me go in to thee; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in to me?
Isaiah 30:3For to you the protection of Pharaoh shall be a shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt a confusion.
Isaiah 57:9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst multiply thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers afar off, and didst debase thyself unto 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 being a harlot, and thou also shalt give no more any reward.
Hosea 8:9For they are gone up [to] Assyria [as] a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Joel 3:3and they have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk [it].
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 →