Ezekiel 16
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Ezekiel 16:11-21

11I adorned you with jewelry, put 1bracelets on your wrists, and a 2necklace around your neck. 12I also put a 3ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a 4beautiful crown on your head. 13So you were adorned with 5gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk, and colorfully woven cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to 6royalty. 14Then your 7fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was 8perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord God.

15“But you 9trusted in your beauty and 10became unfaithful because of your fame, and you poured out your 11obscene practices on every passer-by to whom it might be tempting. 16You took some of your clothes, made for yourself 12high places of various colors, and committed prostitution on them, which should not come about nor happen. 17You also took your beautiful 1314jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images so that you might commit prostitution with them. 18Then you took your colorfully woven cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them. 19Also 15My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey with which I fed you, 16you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord God. 20“Furthermore, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to 17Me and 18sacrificed them to 19idols to be devoured. Were your obscene practices a trivial matter? 21You slaughtered 20My children and offered them to 21idols by 22making them pass through the fire.

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Notes

  1. 1. Ezekiel 16:11 Gen 24:22, 47; Is 3:19; Ezek 23:42 ↩
  2. 2. Ezekiel 16:11 Gen 41:42; Prov 1:9 ↩
  3. 3. Ezekiel 16:12 Gen 24:47; Is 3:21 ↩
  4. 4. Ezekiel 16:12 Is 28:5; Jer 13:18; Ezek 16:14 ↩
  5. 5. Ezekiel 16:13 Ps 45:13, 14; Ezek 16:17 ↩
  6. 6. Ezekiel 16:13 1 Sam 10:1; 1 Kin 4:21 ↩
  7. 7. Ezekiel 16:14 1 Kin 10:1, 24 ↩
  8. 8. Ezekiel 16:14 Ps 50:2; Lam 2:15 ↩
  9. 9. Ezekiel 16:15 Ezek 16:25; 27:3 ↩
  10. 10. Ezekiel 16:15 Is 57:8; Jer 2:20 ↩
  11. 11. Ezekiel 16:15 I.e., idolatrous practices with nations ↩
  12. 12. Ezekiel 16:16 I.e., pagan altars ↩
  13. 13. Ezekiel 16:17 Lit articles of beauty ↩
  14. 14. Ezekiel 16:17 Ezek 16:11, 12 ↩
  15. 15. Ezekiel 16:19 Hos 2:8 ↩
  16. 16. Ezekiel 16:19 Lit and you...offer it ↩
  17. 17. Ezekiel 16:20 Ex 13:2, 12; Deut 29:11, 12 ↩
  18. 18. Ezekiel 16:20 Ps 106:37, 38; Jer 7:31; Ezek 20:31; 23:37 ↩
  19. 19. Ezekiel 16:20 Lit them ↩
  20. 20. Ezekiel 16:21 Ex 13:2 ↩
  21. 21. Ezekiel 16:21 Lit them ↩
  22. 22. Ezekiel 16:21 2 Kin 17:17; Jer 19:5 ↩

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