Ezekiel 16 · Verse 24

Ezekiel 16:24

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:24, King James Version

Ezekiel 16:24 in other translations

BSByou built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
WEB“that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
ASVthat thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.
YLTThat thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place.
DARBYthat thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:
BBEThat you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.
WebsterThat thou hast also built to thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a high place in every street.

What does Ezekiel 16:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
24. eminent place--rather, "a fornication-chamber," often connected with the impure rites of idolatry; spiritual fornication, on "an eminent place," answering to "fornication-chamber," is mainly meant, with an allusion also to the literal fornication associated with it (Jr 2:20; 3:2).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 24 Thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place - גב gab, a stew or brothel; Vulg. lupanar; Septuag. οικημα πορνικον. So my old MS. Bible, a bordel house. "Thou hast builded thy stewes and bordell houses in every place." - Coverdale's Bible, 1636. Bordel is an Italian word: how it got so early into our language I know not. Our modern word brothel is a corruption of it. Diodati translates, Tu hai edificato un bordello, "Thou hast built a brothel." Houses of this kind were of a very ancient date.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 16:1-58

A parable showing the first low estate of the Jewish nation, its prosperity, idolatries, and punishment. Verses 1-58 In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided…

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Ezekiel 16:24 in the original Hebrew

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וַתִּבְנִי\־va.tiv.ni-and you builtH1129
לָ֖ךְlakhfor yourself
גֶּ֑בGeva moundH1354
וַתַּעֲשִׂי\־va.ta.'a.si-and you madeH6213
לָ֥ךְlakhfor yourself
רָמָ֖הra.Maha high placeH7413
בְּכָל\־be.kholin everyH3605
רְחֽוֹב\׃re.Chovopen placeH7339

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 16:24

  • Psalms 78:58

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

  • Jeremiah 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.

  • Ezekiel 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;

  • Isaiah 57:7

    Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

  • Ezekiel 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.

  • 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. Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

  • Jeremiah 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.

  • 2 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. And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

  • 2 Kings 23:5-7

    And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

  • 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.

  • 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. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. …

  • 2 Chronicles 33:3-7

    For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
thou hast.
31,39; 20:28,29; 2Ki 21:3-7; 23:5-7,11,12; 2Ch 33:3-7
eminent place. or, brothel house. and hast.
Le 26:30; Ps 78:58; Isa 57:5,7; Jer 2:20; 3:2; 17:3

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Context

  • Ezekiel 16:23

    And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God;)

  • Ezekiel 16:24

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

  • Ezekiel 16:25

    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.

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Ezekiel 16:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Edificástete alto, y te hiciste altar en todas las plazas:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
que tu t’es bâti un lieu de débauche et que tu t’es fait un haut lieu dans toutes les places:
German
Elberfelder 1871
bautest du dir Gewölbe und machtest dir Höhen auf allen Straßen;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et ædificasti tibi lupanar, et fecisti tibi prostibulum in cunctis plateis.