Ezekiel 16:24
22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
- KJV
- That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
- WEB
- “that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
- ASV
- that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.
- DARBY
- that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:
- BLB
- [that] you built for yourself a mound and you set for yourself a high place in every public square!
- ÅB
- bygget du deg en hvelving[^1] og gjorde deg en offerhaug i hver gate[^2].
- OTB
- bygde du en haug for deg selv og laget et høyt sted på hvert offentlig torg.
- B1930
- bygget du dig en hvelving og gjorde dig en offerhaug i hver gate. / < til utukt.> / < 2KR 28, 24.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:20
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:31
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;
Read in contextIsaiah 57:7
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:39
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:28–29
For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Read in contextJeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Read in context2 Kings 23:11–12
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
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