Ezekiel 16:24

24 that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.

Ezekiel 16:24 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:24

[That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place
Or a "brothel" F11; and so the Septuagint version, "a whoring house"; not content to commit idolatry privately, they built a public place for idolatrous worship. The Targum renders it, "altar", The word has the signification of a pit or ditch; with which compare ( Proverbs 22:14 ) ( 23:27 ) ; and hast made thee an high place in every street;
of Jerusalem, and other cities; it was usual to erect high places in streets, where altars were built, and idols set up to be worshipped: it denotes the public manner in which they committed idolatry, and the multitude of their idols; which shows their impudence and hardness of heart.


FOOTNOTES:

F11 (bg) (oikhma pornikon) , Sept. "lupanar", V. L. "prostibulum", so some in Starckius.

Ezekiel 16:24 In-Context

22 And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.
23 "Then it was so, after all your wickedness--'Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord God--
24 that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.
25 You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.
26 You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
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