Ezekiel 16:24

That thou didst build thee a brothel,— and didst make thee a height in every broadway:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, Exclaimeth My Lord Yahweh;

25At the head of every road, didst thou build thy height, And bring thy beauty into disgust, And open thy feet to every passer-by, So didst thou make thine unchaste ways to abound.

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Cross References

1 Kings 14:23And, they also, built for themselves high places and pillars, and Sacred Stems,—upon every high hill, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 23:5and he put down the idol-priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed, so that incense might be burned in the high places, in the cities of Judah, and round about Jerusalem,—them also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the army of the heavens;

2 Chronicles 21:11He too, made high places among the mountains of Judah,—and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unchaste, and seduced Judah.

2 Chronicles 33:3And he again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had thrown down,—and set up altars to the Baalim, and made Sacred Stems, and bowed in prostration unto all the army of the heavens, and served them;

Isaiah 57:5Who inflame yourselves With the terebinths, Under every green tree—Slaying the children, In the torrent-valleys, Under the clefts of the crags:

Jeremiah 2:20For, in age-past time, I brake thy yoke, I tare off thy fetters, And thou saidst, I will not transgress,—Nevertheless, on every high hill, and under every green tree, wast thou lying down as an unchaste woman.

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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