Ezekiel 16:24

24 that thou hast also built unto thee a high place and hast made thee an altar in every street.

Ezekiel 16:24 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:24

[That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place
Or a "brothel" ^F11; and so the Septuagint version, "a whoring house"; not content to commit idolatry privately, they built a public place for idolatrous worship. The Targum renders it, "altar", The word has the signification of a pit or ditch; with which compare ( Proverbs 22:14 ) ( 23:27 ) ; and hast made thee an high place in every street;
of Jerusalem, and other cities; it was usual to erect high places in streets, where altars were built, and idols set up to be worshipped: it denotes the public manner in which they committed idolatry, and the multitude of their idols; which shows their impudence and hardness of heart.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (bg) (oikhma pornikon) , Sept. "lupanar", V. L. "prostibulum", so some in Starckius.

Ezekiel 16:24 In-Context

22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms hast thou not remembered the days of thy youth when thou wast naked and bare? Thou wast polluted in thy blood.

23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe unto thee! said the Lord GOD)

24 that thou hast also built unto thee a high place and hast made thee an altar in every street.

25 Thou hast built thy altar at every head of every way and hast made thy beauty abominable and hast opened thy thighs to every one that passed by and multiplied thy whoredoms.

26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the sons of Egypt, thy neighbours, great of flesh, and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.