Ezekiel 16:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Ezekiel 16:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That thou ... - Render it: after that thou didst build “unto thee an eminent place,” and didst make “thee an high place in every street” - after that thou didst build “thy high place at the head...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

eminent places . brothel house. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for the idol's temple.
Ezekiel 16:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place - גב gab, a stew or brothel; Vulg. lupanar; S...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

An eminent place— A brothel-house. Houbigant. See also Ezekiel 16:31 ; Ezekiel 16:39 . Instead of, Hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, Ezekiel 16:25 he reads, And, dishonouring thy beauty...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place - rather, 'a fornication-chamber,' ofte...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ritual of the Day of Atonement (See also Leviticus 23:26-32 ; Numbers 29:7-11 ; Exodus 30:10 .) This solemn ceremonial took place once a year on the tenth day of the seventh month ( Tishri =...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

JERUSALEM-AN IDEAL HISTORY Ezekiel 16:1-63 IN order to understand the place which the sixteenth chapter occupies in this section of the book, we must remember that a chief source of the antagon...
Ezekiel 16:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The second figure was that of the adulteress, and this the prophet wrought out at great length. Jerusalem was arraigned on account of her abominations, which were described under the figure of that s...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have here, under the same figure, carried on, of the sad departures which, even after grace, is too often discoverable in the Church. Israel, of old, to whom the Prophet is speaking, was remarkabl...
Ezekiel 16:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place ,.... Or a "brothel" k; and so the Septuagint version, "a whoring house"; not content to commit idolatry privately, they built a public place f...
Ezekiel 16:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 16:24 [That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. Ver. 24. That thou hast also built unto thee. ] How stintless is sin, and...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou hast also built thee an eminent place in every street Manasseh filled Jerusalem with idols, 2Ch 33:4-5; 2 Chronicles 33:15 ; the altars of many of which were placed upon high or eminent plac...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. B. C. 593. 15 But thou didst trust...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hast also built, with great charge and pains, as those do. who build, hereby declaring thy purposes of continuing thy lewdness. Unto thee; for thyself, grown so prodigiously public, and followed...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“And so it is after all your wickedness - woe, woe to you, says the Lord Yahweh - that you have built yourself an eminent place (or vaulted chamber) and have made yourself a lofty place on every stre...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ISRAEL’S APOSTACY FROM GOD ( Ezekiel 16:15-34 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES. Its origin and nature ( Ezekiel 16:15-22 ); its magnitude and extent ( Ezekiel 16:23-34 ). Ezekiel 16:15 . The apostacy of Israel...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

In this very remarkable chapter, God describes his ancient people Israel under the figure of an infant which had been cast away, but which he had cared for and tended, and upon which he had lavished...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 16:3 . Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite, a Chittith, a family of immodesty. The Israelites gloried in their descent from the holy patriarchs, heirs of the promises; but...
Ezekiel 16:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The section on which we now enter, with its companion picture in Ezekiel 23:1-26 ; forms the most terrible, one might almost say the most repellent, part of Ezekiel's prophetic utter...
Ezekiel 16:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Horrible Unfaithfulness of the Lord's People
Ezekiel 16:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 16:31 ; Ezekiel 23:10 ; Ezekiel 23:32 ; Ezekiel 23:9 ; Genesis 38:14 ; Genesis 38:21 ; Isaiah 3:9 ; Jeremiah 2:23 ; Jeremiah 2:24 ; Jeremiah 3:2 ; Jeremiah 6:15 ; Proverbs 9:14 ;...
Ezekiel 16:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In every street — Idol temples were in every street; both in Jerusalem and her cities.

Ezekiel 16:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 16:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 16:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 16:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 16:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 16:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 16:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 16:24 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Ezekiel 16:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 16:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 16:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 16:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 16:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes