Ezekiel 16:24

that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make thyself a public place in every street;

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

In Context

23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, saith the Lord,

25and on the head of every way thou didst set up thy fornications, and didst defile thy beauty, and didst open thy feet to every passer by, and didst multiply thy fornication.

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Cross References

1 Kings 14:23And they built for themselves high places, and pillars, and planted groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

2 Kings 23:5And he burned the + 23:5 Heb. הבמויס.idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Juda had + 23:5 Gr. given.appointed, (and they burned incense in the high places and in the cities of Juda, and the places round about Jerusalem); and them that burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to + 23:5 Or, the twelve signs. Heb. ולמולות compare Job 38. 32.Mazuroth, and to all the host of heaven.

2 Chronicles 21:11For he built high places in the cities of Juda, and caused the dwellers in Jerusalem to go a-whoring, and led Juda astray.

2 Chronicles 33:3And he returned and built the high places, which his father Ezekias had pulled down, and set up images to Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Isaiah 57:5who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying + 57:5 Gr. their.your children in the valleys among the rocks?

Jeremiah 2:20For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and plucked asunder thy bands; and thou hast said, I will not serve thee, but will go upon every high hill, and under every shady tree, there will I indulge in my fornication.

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 →

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