Ezekiel 16:17

But thou didst take thine adorning jewels Of my gold and of my silver which I had given thee, And didst make thee images of the male,— And didst act unchastely with them;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

In Context

16Yea thou didst take of thy raiment and madest thee high places of hangings, And didst commit unchastity thereon,- Which ought not to have befallen And not to have come to pass.

18And thou didst take thine embroidered raiment, and cover them,- And mine oil and mine incense, didst thou set before them;

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Cross References

Exodus 32:1And, when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him—Up, make for us gods, who shall go before us, for, as for this Moses—the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what hath befallen him.

Isaiah 57:7On a mountain high and uplifted, hast thou set thy couch,—Even thither, hast thou gone up, to offer sacrifice;

Jeremiah 3:9Yea though it had come to pass that through the levity of her unchastity, she had defiled the land,—and committed adultery with Stone and with Tree,

Ezekiel 16:11Then decked I thee with ornaments, And put bracelets upon thy hands, And a neckchain upon thy throat;

Hosea 2:13So will I visit upon her the days of the Baals, unto whom she used to burn incense, and decked herself with her nose-ring and her jewelry, and went her way after her lovers,—whereas, me, she forgat, Declareth Yahweh.

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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