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

Bible Comments

“And you took of your clothes and made for yourself high places decked with various colours (RSV ‘gaily decked shrines'), and played the prostitute on them. The like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.”

She stripped off her clothes so as to attract her lovers. Then the fine and rich clothes that Yahweh had given her in her prosperity were used to decorate the high places where the gods of Canaan were worshipped and honoured (compare 2 Kings 23:7), and sexual perversions took place in accordance with Canaanite religion (compare Jeremiah 3:2).

‘The like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.” What they did was so disgraceful that the like of it has been known neither before or since.

Ezekiel 16:16

16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.