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Ezekiel 16:24

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place,.... Or a "brothel" {k}; 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;

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.


{k} bg oikhma pornikon, Sept. "lupanar", V. L. "prostibulum", so some in Starckius.

 

 

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