Ezekiel Chapter 16 verse 24 Holy Bible
that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.
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That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.
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that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:
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That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
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that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty place in every street.
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That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - An eminent place; lofty (Revised Version); but the word strictly points to the form of a vault, with the added meaning, as in the LXX., οἵκημα πορνικόν, and the Vulgate, lupanar, of its being used for prostitution. It is, at hast, a curious fact that the Latin fornicari and its derivatives, take their start from the fornices, the vaults or cells which were the haunts of the harlots of Rome. Looking to the fact that all the worst forms of sensual evil came to Rome from the East, and specially from Syria - "Jampridem in Tiberim Syrus defluxit Orontes"(Juv., 'Sat.', 3:62) - it seems probable that the practice was a survival of the custom to which Ezekiel refers. As in the Mylitta worship at Babylon (Herod., 1:262; Bar., 6:43), and that of Aphrodite at Corinth, prostitution assumed a quasi-religious character, and t
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Built unto thee an eminent place.--The word means literally, arches. Such arched rooms were used in connection with the worship of idols for licentious purposes, and hence the translation of the margin indicates the real object of the structure, whether the word be taken in its literal sense, or spiritually, of unfaithfulness to God. In the following verse the indiscriminateness of Israel's idolatry is expressed in the strongest terms, and then in the following verses the adoption of the idolatries of several nations in particular is specified.
