Ezequiel 16:15

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

Mas confiaste na tua formosura e te entregaste lascvia, graas tua fama; e te ofereceste a todo o que passava, para seres dele.

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A Biblia Sagrada
Mas confiaste na tua formosura, e te corrompeste por causa da tua fama, e prostituas-te a todo o que passava, para seres dele.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
Mas confiaste na tua formosura, e te corrompeste por causa da tua fama, e prostituas-te a todo o que passava, para seres sua.

Bible Verse Review
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thou didst: Ezekiel 33:13, Deuteronomy 32:15, Isaiah 48:1, Jeremiah 7:4, Micah 3:11, Zephaniah 3:11, Matthew 3:9

and playedst: Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:8, Ezekiel 23:11, Ezekiel 23:12-21, Exodus 32:6-35, Numbers 25:1, Numbers 25:2, Judges 2:12, Judges 3:6, Judges 10:6, 1 Kings 11:5, 1 Kings 12:28, 2 Kings 17:7, 2 Kings 21:3, Psalms 106:35, Isaiah 1:21, Isaiah 57:8, Jeremiah 2:20, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 7:4, Hosea 1:2, Hosea 4:10, Revelation 17:5

because: Raised from the most abject state to dignity and splendour by Jehovah, Israel became proud of her numbers, riches, strength, and reputation, forgetting that it was "through his comeliness which he had put upon them;" and thus departing from God, made alliances with heathen nations, and worshipped their idols.

and pouredst: Ezekiel 16:25, Ezekiel 16:36, Ezekiel 16:37

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:24 - played the harlot Deuteronomy 31:16 - and go a 2 Kings 21:15 - since the day 2 Chronicles 21:11 - fornication Nehemiah 9:26 - they were Psalms 78:56 - General Psalms 106:36 - And Psalms 106:39 - went Proverbs 11:22 - a jewel Proverbs 30:9 - I be full Proverbs 31:30 - Favour Jeremiah 3:13 - and hast scattered Jeremiah 3:20 - so have Jeremiah 13:27 - thine adulteries Jeremiah 32:30 - children Ezekiel 16:13 - and thou wast Ezekiel 16:45 - that loatheth Ezekiel 23:7 - committed her whoredoms with them Ezekiel 28:17 - heart Hosea 2:5 - their mother Matthew 19:9 - except Revelation 14:8 - because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But thou didst trust in thine own beauty,.... As the Jews did in external gifts bestowed upon them; in their outward prosperity and grandeur; in their riches, wealth, and wisdom; and in the extent of their dominions, as in the days of David and Solomon; and in such things men are apt to; put their trust and confidence, and to be elated with, and grow proud and haughty, as a woman because of her beauty: so some professors of religion trust in a form and profession of it; in speculative knowledge, and in outward duties and services; being unconcerned for inward purity and: holiness; and not trusting in the righteousness of Christ, the real beauty of saints:

and playedst the harlot because of thy renown; or "name" b; which the Jews got among the nations round about them, for their wisdom, riches, and power; which was a snare unto them, as a woman's beauty is to her; and they were admired and courted, and complimented by their neighbours, and so drawn into idolatrous practices, as women into fornication and adultery by the admirers of them: idolatry, which is here meant, is frequently signified by playing the harlot, or by fornication and adultery: or "thou playedst the harlot in thy name" c; alluding to the custom of harlots, notorious infamous ones, who used to set their names over the apartments, to direct men unto them; and so it may denote how famous and notorious the Jews were for their idolatries, and how impudent in them. Jarchi interprets this of the calf of the wilderness, and other idolatries which the tribe of Dan committed there; but it rather respects the idolatries committed from the times of Solomon to the captivity, which were many, and often repeated; and though sometimes a stop was put to them by pious princes, yet broke out again: so trusting in a man's own righteousness, or in any outward thing, is idolatry; and also false worship and superstitious observances:

and pouredst out thy fornication on everyone that passed by: which expresses the multitude of their idolatries; the measure of them, which ran over; the fondness they had for every idol of their neighbours; like a common strumpet, that prostitutes herself to everyone, not only to the men of her own place and city, but to all strangers and travellers; so the Jews, not content with the idols they had, embraced all that offered or their neighbours could furnish them with:

his it was; or "to him it was"; her desire, her lust, her fornication; everyone that passed by, that would might enjoy her; so the Jews were reader to fall in with every idol and every idolatrous practice. The Targum renders this clause,

"and it is not right for thee to do so;''

to commit and multiply idolatry.

b על שמך "propter nomen tuum", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator. c "In nomine tuo", V. L. Munster, Tigurine version, Grotius; "super nomen tuum", Starckius; "cum nomine tuo", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet now describes the idolatries of the time of the Kings. The earlier offences in the time of the Judges are not noticed, that being an unsettled time. The conduct of the people after they had “prospered into a kingdom” is to be described.

Because of thy renown - The marriages of Solomon with pagan wives, and his consequent idolatries, are a clear instance of such, misuse of glory.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 16:15. Thou didst trust in thine own beauty — Riches, strength, alliances, c. never considering that all they possessed came from God; therefore it was his comeliness which he had put upon them. Witness their original abject state, and the degree of eminence to which they had arrived afterwards through the protecting power of God.