Ezekiel 16:25

25 You built a place of worship at the beginning of every street. You made your beauty hateful, offering your body for sex to anyone who passed by, so your sexual sins became worse and worse.

Ezekiel 16:25 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:25

Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way
Where two or more ways, or two or more streets, met; and so was most conspicuous, and was seen from different parts; which shows the same as before: and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred;
by the Lord himself, Who otherwise greatly desires and delights in the beauty of his people, when they worship him, ( Psalms 45:11 ) ; and by all good men, and such as fear the Lord, who cannot but abhor such idolatrous practices, and those that are guilty of them; and even by the Heathens themselves, to whom the Jews became mean and despicable, when they fell into idolatry, and under the displeasure of God, whom they forsook; as a common strumpet becomes, in process of time, loathsome to her quondam lovers: and hast opened thy feet to everyone that passed by;
an euphemism, signifying the exposing to view the privities or secret parts, in order to allure to impure embraces; and the meaning is, that the Jews were ready to receive any idol, and give into any idolatrous worship that offered to them, and even courted and solicited the Gentiles to join with them in all idolatrous practices: and multiplied thy whoredoms;
or idolatries; the number of their idols being answerable to their cities, and even were as many as the streets and heads of ways in them.

Ezekiel 16:25 In-Context

23 "'How terrible! How terrible it will be for you, says the Lord God. After you did all these evil things,
24 you built yourself a place to worship gods. You made for yourself a place of worship in every city square.
25 You built a place of worship at the beginning of every street. You made your beauty hateful, offering your body for sex to anyone who passed by, so your sexual sins became worse and worse.
26 You also had sexual relations with the Egyptians, who were your neighbors and partners in sexual sin. Your sexual sins became even worse, and they caused me to be angry.
27 So then, I used my power against you and took away some of your land. I let you be defeated by those who hate you, the Philistine women, who were ashamed of your evil ways.
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