Ezekiel 16:24

that thou didst build for thee an arched place, and make thee a high place in every street;

Noyes Bible

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, (woe, woe to thee! saith the Lord Jehovah,)

25at every head of the way didst thou build thy high place, and didst make thy beauty to be abhorred, and didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and didst multiply thy fornications.

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Cross References

Isaiah 57:5Burning with lust for idols Under every green tree, Slaying children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?

Jeremiah 2:20Of old hast thou broken thy yoke, And burst thy bands, And said, “I will not be in subjection!” For upon every high hill, And under every green tree, Hast thou reclined, playing the 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 →

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