Ezekiel 16:18

You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set my oils and perfumes before them.

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In The King James Version

And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

In Context

17You took the fine jewels of the gold and silver that I gave you, and you made for yourself male figures, and you did with them as a prostitute would do.

19My bread I gave you—made with fine flour, oil, and honey—you set before them for a fragrant aroma, for this is what happened—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:38The gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices 1 and drank the wine of their drink offerings? 1 Let them rise up and help you; 1 let them be your protection. 1

Ezekiel 16:10I dressed you in embroidered clothes and placed leather sandals on your feet. I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

Hosea 2:7She will pursue her lovers, 1 but she will not overtake them. 1 She will seek them, 1 but she will not find them. 1 Then she will say, 1 “I will return to my first husband, 1 for it was better for me then than it is now.” 1

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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