Ezekiel 16:24
New International Version
you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square.

New Living Translation
you built a pagan shrine and put altars to idols in every town square.

English Standard Version
you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.

Berean Standard Bible
you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.

King James Bible
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

New King James Version
that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.

New American Standard Bible
that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every public square.

NASB 1995
that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.

NASB 1977
that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.

Legacy Standard Bible
that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.

Amplified Bible
that you built yourself an altar for prostitution and made yourself a high place [for ritual prostitution] in every square [of Jerusalem].

Christian Standard Bible
you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square.

American Standard Version
that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You have built yourself a brothel and you have made yourself high places in every street

Brenton Septuagint Translation
that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make thyself a public place in every street;

Contemporary English Version
but you also built places on every street corner

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.

English Revised Version
that thou hast built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
you built yourself platforms and illegal worship sites in every city square.

Good News Translation
by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.

International Standard Version
"You built raised mounds and high places for yourself on every plaza.

JPS Tanakh 1917
that thou hast built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.

Literal Standard Version
That you build an arch for yourself, | And make a high place for yourself in every broad place.

Majority Standard Bible
you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.

New American Bible
you built yourself a platform and raised up a dais in every public place.

NET Bible
you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square.

New Revised Standard Version
you built yourself a platform and made yourself a lofty place in every square;

New Heart English Bible
that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

Webster's Bible Translation
That thou hast also built to thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a high place in every street.

World English Bible
“that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

Young's Literal Translation
That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place.

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Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
23Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord GOD. And in addition to all your other wickedness, 24you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. 25At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.…

Cross References
1 Kings 14:23
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Psalm 78:58
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Isaiah 57:7
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.

Jeremiah 11:13
Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up--the altars to burn incense to Baal--are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.'

Ezekiel 16:23
Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord GOD. And in addition to all your other wickedness,

Ezekiel 16:31
But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

Ezekiel 16:39
Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.


Treasury of Scripture

That you have also built to you an eminent place, and have made you an high place in every street.

thou hast

Ezekiel 16:31,39
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; …

Ezekiel 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…

2 Kings 21:3-7
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them…

eminent place.

Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Psalm 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Isaiah 57:5,7
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? …

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Ezekiel 16
1. Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6. God's extraordinary love toward her,
15. Her grievous judgment
35. Her sin, equal to her mother,
46. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria,
59. calls for judgments
60. Mercy is promised her in the end














(24) Built unto thee an eminent place.--The word means literally, arches. Such arched rooms were used in connection with the worship of idols for licentious purposes, and hence the translation of the margin indicates the real object of the structure, whether the word be taken in its literal sense, or spiritually, of unfaithfulness to God. In the following verse the indiscriminateness of Israel's idolatry is expressed in the strongest terms, and then in the following verses the adoption of the idolatries of several nations in particular is specified.

Verse 24. - An eminent place; lofty (Revised Version); but the word strictly points to the form of a vault, with the added meaning, as in the LXX., οἵκημα πορνικόν, and the Vulgate, lupanar, of its being used for prostitution. It is, at hast, a curious fact that the Latin fornicari and its derivatives, take their start from the fornices, the vaults or cells which were the haunts of the harlots of Rome. Looking to the fact that all the worst forms of sensual evil came to Rome from the East, and specially from Syria -

"Jampridem in Tiberim Syrus defluxit Orontes"

(Juv., 'Sat.', 3:62) - it seems probable that the practice was a survival of the custom to which Ezekiel refers. As in the Mylitta worship at Babylon (Herod., 1:262; Bar., 6:43), and that of Aphrodite at Corinth, prostitution assumed a quasi-religious character, and t

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
you built
וַתִּבְנִי־ (wat·tiḇ·nî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 1129: To build

yourself
לָ֖ךְ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

a mound
גֶּ֑ב‪‬ (geḇ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

and made
וַתַּעֲשִׂי־ (wat·ta·‘ă·śî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

yourself
לָ֥ךְ (lāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

a lofty shrine
רָמָ֖ה (rā·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7413: Height, high place

in every
בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

public square.
רְחֽוֹב׃ (rə·ḥō·wḇ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7339: A broad open place, plaza


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