Ezekiel 16:24

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22 And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your ^ayouth, ^bwhen you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.

23 “Then it was so, after all your wickedness—‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God—

24 that ^ayou also built for yourself a shrine, and ^bmade a high place for yourself in every street.

25 You built your high places ^aat the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.

26 You also committed harlotry with ^athe Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to ^bprovoke Me to anger.

27 “Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your¹ allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, ^athe daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

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Adam Clarke

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Ezekiel 16:24

Thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place - gab , a stew or brothel; Vulg. lupanar ; Septuag. . So my old MS. Bible, a bordel house. "Thou hast builded thy stewes and bordell houses in every place." - Coverdale' s Bible, 1636. Bordel is an Italian word: how it got so early into our language I know not. Our modern word brothel is a corruption of it. Diodati translates, Tu hai edificato un bordello , "Thou hast built a brothel." Houses of this kind were of a very ancient date.

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