Ezekiel 16:24
That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to thee, saith the Lord God)
Cross References
1 Kings 14:23For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:
2 Kings 23:5And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and round about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Chronicles 21:11Moreover he built also high places in the cities of Juda, and he made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and Juda to transgress.
2 Chronicles 33:3And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.
Isaiah 57:5Who seek your comfort in idols under every green tree, sacrificing children in the torrents, under the high rocks?
Jeremiah 2:20Of old time thou hast broken my yoke, thou hast burst my bands, and thou saidst: I will not serve. For on every high hill, and under every green tree thou didst prostitute thyself.
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 →