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Ezekiel 16:17

You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.

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ASV

Thou didst also take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest for thee images of men, and didst play the harlot with them;

KJV

Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַתִּקְחִ֞יva.tik.Chiand you tookH3947 →
כְּלֵ֣יke.Lei[the] articles ofH3627 →
תִפְאַרְתֵּ֗ךְtif.'ar.Tekhbeauty yourH8597 →
מִזְּהָבִ֤יmi.ze.ha.Visome of gold myH2091 →
וּמִכַּסְפִּי֙u.mi.kas.Piand some of silver myH3701 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
נָתַ֣תִּיna.Ta.tiI had givenH5414 →
לָ֔ךְLakhto you
וַתַּעֲשִׂי־va.ta.'a.si-and you madeH6213 →
לָ֖ךְlakhfor yourself
צַלְמֵ֣יtzal.Meiimages ofH6754 →
זָכָ֑רza.Khara maleH2145 →
וַתִּזְנִי־va.tiz.ni-and you acted as a prostituteH2181 →
בָֽם׃Vamwith them

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Ezekiel 23:14–21But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,Ezekiel 7:19–20They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.Exodus 32:1–4Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”Hosea 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 3:9Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.Hosea 10:1Israel was a luxuriant vine, yielding fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he increased the altars. The better his land produced, the better he made the sacred pillars.Ezekiel 16:11I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.Isaiah 44:19–20And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”Jeremiah 2:27–28say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’Isaiah 57:7–8On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.Exodus 32:2So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.”Ezekiel 23:16At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.Revelation 13:14Because of the signs it was given to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived those who dwell on the earth, telling them to make an image to the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet had lived.

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About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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