Ezekiel 16:17
New International Version
You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.

New Living Translation
You took the very jewels and gold and silver ornaments I had given you and made statues of men and worshiped them. This is adultery against me!

English Standard Version
You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.

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

King James Bible
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,

New King James Version
You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them.

New American Standard Bible
You also took your beautiful jewels 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.

NASB 1995
“You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.

NASB 1977
“You also took your beautiful jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.

Legacy Standard Bible
You also took your splendid jewelry made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.

Amplified Bible
You also took your beautiful jewels and beautiful vessels made of My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men so that you could prostitute yourself with them;

Christian Standard Bible
You also took your beautiful jewelry made from the gold and silver I had given you, and you made male images so that you could engage in prostitution with them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You also took your beautiful jewelry made from the gold and silver I had given you, and you made male images so that you could engage in prostitution with them.

American Standard Version
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;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you took the implements of your glory, of gold and of silver, that I have given you, and you made for yourself male images and you fornicated with them

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou tookest thy fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of what I gave thee, and thou madest to thyself male images, and thou didst commit whoredom with them.

Contemporary English Version
You made idols out of the gold and silver jewelry I gave you, then you sinned by worshiping those idols.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of my gold, and my silver, which I gave thee, and thou madest thee images of men, and hast committed fornication with them.

English Revised Version
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;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You took your beautiful gold and silver jewelry that I had given you and made male idols for yourself. Then you committed adultery with them.

Good News Translation
You took the silver and gold jewelry that I had given you, used it to make male images, and committed adultery with them.

International Standard Version
"You also took your fine jewelry—including my gold and my silver that I had given you. Then you made for yourself male images and had sex with them!

JPS Tanakh 1917
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;

Literal Standard Version
And you take your beautiful vessels | Of My gold and My silver that I gave to you, | And make images of a male for yourself, | And go whoring with them,

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

New American Bible
You took the splendid gold and silver ornaments that I had given you and made for yourself male images and served as a prostitute with them.

NET Bible
You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them.

New Revised Standard Version
You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and my silver that I had given you, and made for yourself male images, and with them played the whore;

New Heart English Bible
You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them;

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and hast made to thyself images of men, and hast committed lewdness with them.

World English Bible
You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.

Young's Literal Translation
And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee, And dost make to thee images of a male, And dost go a-whoring with them,

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Context
Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness
16You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred! 17You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself. 18You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 16:11
I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.

Ezekiel 16:12
I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.

Ezekiel 16:13
So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be queen.

Ezekiel 16:16
You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!

Ezekiel 16:18
You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.

Hosea 2:13
I 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.


Treasury of Scripture

You have also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and did commit prostitution with them,

hast also

Ezekiel 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

Ezekiel 23:14
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

Exodus 32:1-4
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him…

men [heb] a male

Isaiah 44:19,20
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? …

Isaiah 57:7,8
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice…

Jeremiah 2:27,28
Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us…

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Ezekiel 16
1. Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6. God's extraordinary love toward her,
15. Her grievous judgment
35. Her sin, equal to her mother,
46. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria,
59. calls for judgments
60. Mercy is promised her in the end














Verse 17. - Images of men, etc.; Hebrew, as falling in with the symbolism of the history, "male images." The words point to the teraphim, the penates, or household gods, of which we read in Genesis 31:19; Judges 18:14; 1 Samuel 19:13; Hosea 3:4; and which, like the statues of Baal-peor, may have exhibited the phallic type of idolatry.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You also took
וַתִּקְחִ֞י (wat·tiq·ḥî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

the fine
תִפְאַרְתֵּ֗ךְ (ṯip̄·’ar·têḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 8597: Beauty, glory

jewelry
כְּלֵ֣י (kə·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus

of gold
מִזְּהָבִ֤י (miz·zə·hā·ḇî)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky

and silver
וּמִכַּסְפִּי֙ (ū·mik·kas·pî)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money

I had given you,
נָתַ֣תִּי (nā·ṯat·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

and you made
וַתַּעֲשִׂי־ (wat·ta·‘ă·śî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

male
זָכָ֑ר (zā·ḵār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2145: Remembered, a male

idols
צַלְמֵ֣י (ṣal·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6754: A phantom, illusion, resemblance, a representative figure, an idol

with which
בָֽם׃ (ḇām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

to prostitute yourself.
וַתִּזְנִי־ (wat·tiz·nî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry


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