Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 Study Bible you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. New American Standard Bible that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square. New King James Version that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street. King James Bible That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Christian Standard Bible you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square. Contemporary English Version but you also built places on every street corner Good News Translation by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. Holman Christian Standard Bible you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square. International Standard Version "You built raised mounds and high places for yourself on every plaza. NET Bible you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square. New Heart English Bible that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street. GOD'S WORD® Translation you built yourself platforms and illegal worship sites in every city square. JPS Tanakh 1917 that thou hast built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street. New American Standard 1977 that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square. King James 2000 Bible That you have also built unto you an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street. American King James Version That you have also built to you an eminent place, and have made you an high place in every street. American Standard Version that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place 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; Douay-Rheims Bible That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street. Darby Bible Translation that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place 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. 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. Study Bible 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, and the altars you have set up to shame--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 after all your other wickedness, Ezekiel 16:31 But when you built your shrines 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 hand you over to 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. Ezekiel 20:28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings. Ezekiel 20:29 So I asked them: What is this high place to which you go?' (And to this day it is called Bamah.) 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? … Lexicon you builtוַתִּבְנִי־ (wat·tiḇ·nî-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 1129: To build yourself לָ֖ךְ (lāḵ) Preposition | second person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew a mound גֶּ֑ב (geḇ) Noun - common singular Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew 7413: Height, high place in every בְּכָל־ (bə·ḵāl) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every public square. רְחֽוֹב׃ (rə·ḥō·wḇ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 7339: A broad open place, plaza (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 Jump to Previous Arch Arched Broad Build Built Chamber Debauchery Eminent High Lofty Mound Open Public Room Shrine Square Street VaultedJump to Next Arch Arched Broad Build Built Chamber Debauchery Eminent High Lofty Mound Open Public Room Shrine Square Street VaultedLinks Ezekiel 16:24 NIVEzekiel 16:24 NLT Ezekiel 16:24 ESV Ezekiel 16:24 NASB Ezekiel 16:24 KJV Ezekiel 16:24 Bible Apps Ezekiel 16:24 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 16:24 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 16:24 French Bible Ezekiel 16:24 German Bible Alphabetical: a and built every for high in lofty made mound place public shrine square that you yourself OT Prophets: Ezekiel 16:24 That you have built to you (Ezek. Eze Ezk) Christian Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |
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