Ezekiel 16:31

In that you build yours eminent place in the head of every way, and make yours high place in every street; and have not been as an harlot, in that you scorn hire;

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

In Context

30How weak is yours heart, says the LORD GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an domineering whorish woman;

32But as a wife that commits adultery, which takes strangers instead of her husband!

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Cross References

Isaiah 52:3For thus says the LORD, All of you have sold yourselves for nothing; and all of you shall be redeemed without money.

Ezekiel 16:33They give gifts to all whores: but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come unto you on every side for your whoredom.

Ezekiel 20:29Then I said unto them, What is the high place unto which all of you go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.

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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