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

Bible Comments

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.

Deckedst thy high places with divers colours - or, 'didst make thy high places of divers colours' (Fairbairn); the metaphor and the literal are here mixed. The high places whereon they sacrificed to Astarte are here compared to tents of divers colours, which an impudent harlot would spread, to show her house was open to all, (Calvin). Compare as to 'woven hangings for Astarte' (the right translation for "grove" 2 Kings 23:7.

The like things shall not come, neither shall it be so - rather, 'the like things have not come nor shall be.' These thy doings are unparalleled in the past, and shall be so in the future.

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.