Ezekiel 16:16

Modern English Version

Of your garments you took and decked your high places with various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never come about or happen.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:7

He tore down the houses of the male cult prostitutes that were in the house of the Lord, where the women were weaving hangings for the Asherah.

2 Chronicles 28:24

And Ahaz gathered the vessels from the house of God, and he cut up the vessels. Then he shut the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 57:7

On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

Jeremiah 2:10

For pass over the coastlands of Cyprus and see, and send to Kedar and consider diligently, and see if there is such a thing.

Ezekiel 16:15

But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every willing passerby.

Ezekiel 16:17

You have also taken your fair jewels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men that you might commit harlotry with them.

Ezekiel 23:1

The word of the Lord came again to me, saying:

Ezekiel 7:20

They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

Hosea 2:10

Therefore I will uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her from My hand.

Hosea 2:8

But she did not know that it was I who provided her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and multiplied her silver and gold that they used for Baal.