16 You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places,(A) where you carried on your prostitution.(B) You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.[a]

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  1. Ezekiel 16:16 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

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16 (A)You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored [a]high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:16 Places for pagan worship

He said: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne(A) and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites forever. The people of Israel will never again defile(B) my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and the funeral offerings[a] for their kings at their death.[b](C)

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  1. Ezekiel 43:7 Or the memorial monuments; also in verse 9
  2. Ezekiel 43:7 Or their high places

And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.

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And He said to me, “Son of man, this is (A)the place of My throne and (B)the place of the soles of My feet, (C)where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. (D)No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their [a]harlotry or with (E)the carcasses of their kings on their high places.

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  1. Ezekiel 43:7 Unfaithful idolatry