Ezekiel 16:24
That thou didst build unto thyself eminences, and make thyself elevations in every street.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness,—[woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord Eternal;]—
Cross References
1 Kings 14:23And they also built themselves high-places, and standing images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
2 Kings 23:5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed that they might burn incense on the high-places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also that burnt incense unto Ba'al, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Chronicles 21:11He also made high-places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, and misled Judah.
2 Chronicles 33:3And he built again the high-places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he erected altars for the Be'alim, and made Asheroth, and bowed himself down to all the host of heaven, and served them.
Isaiah 57:5That are inflamed after the idols under every green tree; that slaughter the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 2:20Because from yore did I break thy yoke, did I burst asunder thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress: nevertheless upon every high hill and under every green tree thou makest thy bed, as harlot.
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 →