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and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/16.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />You also multiplied your obscene practice with the land of merchants, Chaldea; yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied."&#8217&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/16.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Moreover, you increased your obscene immorality with the land of tradesmen, Chaldea (Babylonia), and yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/16.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />So you extended your prostitution to Chaldea, the land of merchants, but you were not even satisfied with this!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />So you extended your prostitution to Chaldea, the land of merchants, but you were not even satisfied with this!&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/16.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thou hast moreover multiplied thy whoredom unto the land of traffic, unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/16.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />so you went after Babylonians. But those merchants could not satisfy you either. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/16.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thou hast moreover multiplied thy whoredom in the land of Canaan, unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/16.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />So you increased your acts of prostitution to include the land of the merchants, the Babylonians. Even after that, you weren't satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/16.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they didn't satisfy you either." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/16.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />You committed even more immorality with that land of the merchants, the Chaldeans. But you weren't satisfied even with these!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/16.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, but you were not satisfied there either. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/16.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren't satisfied with this.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea; and yet with this thou wast not satisfied.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/16.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/16.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/16.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And you multiply your whoredoms "" On the land of Canaan—toward Chaldea, "" And even with this you have not been satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms On the land of Canaan -- toward Chaldea, And even with this thou hast not been satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/16.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And thou wilt multiply thy fornication at the land of Canaan with the Chaldeans, and also thou wert not satisfied with this,<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast then satisfied. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/16.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And you multiplied your fornications in the land of Canaan with the Chaldeans. And even then, you were not satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You increased your prostitutions again, now going to Chaldea, the land of traders; but despite this, you were still not satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You multiplied your whoring with Chaldea, the land of merchants; and even with this you were not satisfied.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/16.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />You have moreover multiplied your fornications in the land of Canaan and in Chaldea; and yet, even with them you were not satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And you have multiplied your prostitutions over the land of Canaan and of Chaldea, neither were you satisfied in these<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/16.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Thou hast moreover multiplied thy harlotry with the land of traffic, even with Chaldea; and yet thou didst not have enough herewith.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/16.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And thou didst multiply thy covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these wast thou satisfied.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=3768" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">28</span>Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied. <span class="reftext">29</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7235.htm" title="7235: wat·tar·bî (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-2fs) -- To be or become much, many or great. A primitive root; to increase.">So you extended</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8457.htm" title="8457: taz·nū·ṯêḵ (N-fsc:: 2fs) -- Fornication. Or taznuth; from zanah; harlotry, i.e. idolatry.">your promiscuity</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/3778.htm" title="3778: kaś·dî·māh (N-proper-fs:: 3fs) -- A region of S. Bab. and its inhab. (occasionally with enclitic) Kasdiymah; towards the Kasdites.">Chaldea,</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’e·reṣ (N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/3667.htm" title="3667: kə·na·‘an (N-proper-ms) -- From kana'; humiliated; Kenaan, a son a Ham; also the country inhabited by him.">of merchants—</a> <a href="/hebrew/1571.htm" title="1571: wə·ḡam- (Conj) -- Also, moreover, yea. ">but even</a> <a href="/hebrew/2063.htm" title="2063: bə·zōṯ (Prep-b:: Pro-fs) -- Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that. Irregular feminine of zeh; this.">with this</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">you were not</a> <a href="/hebrew/7646.htm" title="7646: śā·ḇā·‘at (V-Qal-Perf-2fs) -- To be sated, satisfied or surfeited. Or sabeay; a primitive root; to sate, i.e. Fill to satisfaction.">satisfied!</a> </span><span class="reftext">30</span>How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1-2</a></span><br />“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD. / “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/2-5.htm">Hosea 2:5-7</a></span><br />For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’ / Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way. / She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-8.htm">Isaiah 57:8-9</a></span><br />Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness. / You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/2-20.htm">Jeremiah 2:20</a></span><br />“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Hosea 9:1</a></span><br />Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-2</a></span><br />Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/3-6.htm">Jeremiah 3:6-9</a></span><br />Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. / I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. / She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Isaiah 1:21</a></span><br />See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12-14</a></span><br />My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-3.htm">Revelation 18:3</a></span><br />All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Jeremiah 13:27</a></span><br />Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">Isaiah 23:17</a></span><br />And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/5-3.htm">Hosea 5:3-4</a></span><br />I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled. / Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/14-8.htm">Revelation 14:8</a></span><br />Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm">Jeremiah 5:7-8</a></span><br />“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes. / They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied therewith.</p><p class="hdg">in the land</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/13-14.htm">Ezekiel 13:14-23</a></b></br> So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered <i>morter</i>, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I <i>am</i> the LORD… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/judges/2-12.htm">Judges 2:12,13</a></b></br> And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that <i>were</i> round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/judges/4-22.htm">Judges 4:22</a></b></br> And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her <i>tent</i>, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail <i>was</i> in his temples.</p><p class="hdg">the work</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/judges/16-15.htm">Judges 16:15,16</a></b></br> And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart <i>is</i> not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength <i>lieth</i>… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/7-11.htm">Proverbs 7:11-13,21</a></b></br> (She <i>is</i> loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/3-9.htm">Isaiah 3:9</a></b></br> The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide <i>it</i> not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/16-3.htm">Canaan</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-24.htm">Chaldaea</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-24.htm">Chaldea</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-24.htm">Chalde'a</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Enough</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-27.htm">Far</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Fornication</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-3.htm">Herewith</a> <a href="/psalms/32-9.htm">Include</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-15.htm">Merchants</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Moreover</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm">Multiply</a> <a href="/romans/13-13.htm">Promiscuity</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Satisfied</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-15.htm">Therewith</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-43.htm">Trading</a> <a href="/job/41-6.htm">Traffic</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Wast</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-27.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Weren't</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Whoredom</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/17-4.htm">Canaan</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-15.htm">Chaldaea</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-15.htm">Chaldea</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-15.htm">Chalde'a</a> <a href="/ezekiel/30-21.htm">Enough</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-5.htm">Far</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-30.htm">Fornication</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-34.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/malachi/3-10.htm">Herewith</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/15-27.htm">Include</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-15.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-4.htm">Merchants</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-11.htm">Moreover</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-51.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-51.htm">Multiply</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-36.htm">Promiscuity</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-33.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-13.htm">Satisfied</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-16.htm">Therewith</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-9.htm">Trading</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-4.htm">Traffic</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Wast</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-36.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-13.htm">Weren't</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-33.htm">Whoredom</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 16</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-1.htm">Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-6.htm">God's extraordinary love toward her,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-15.htm">Her grievous judgment</a></span><br><span class="reftext">35. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-35.htm">Her sin, equal to her mother, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">46. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-46.htm">and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">59. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-59.htm">calls for judgments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">60. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-60.htm">Mercy is promised her in the end</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Chaldea, part of Babylon, was a powerful empire, and Israel's political and spiritual entanglements with it symbolize a departure from reliance on God. Historically, Chaldea was renowned for its merchants and trade, which often led to idolatry and moral corruption. This reflects Israel's tendency to seek security and prosperity through worldly means rather than trusting in God.<p><b>the land of merchants</b><br>Chaldea's reputation as a land of merchants underscores its economic influence and the temptation it posed to Israel. The pursuit of wealth and material gain often led to spiritual compromise. This mirrors the warnings in Proverbs about the dangers of greed and the love of money. The focus on commerce also connects to <a href="/revelation/18.htm">Revelation 18</a>, where Babylon is depicted as a symbol of economic and spiritual corruption, ultimately facing divine judgment.<p><b>but even with this you were not satisfied!</b><br>This phrase emphasizes the insatiable nature of Israel's spiritual adultery. Despite forming alliances and adopting practices from powerful nations like Chaldea, Israel remained unfulfilled. This reflects the biblical theme that turning away from God to pursue worldly desires leads to emptiness and dissatisfaction. <a href="/ecclesiastes/1-8.htm">Ecclesiastes 1:8</a> and <a href="/jeremiah/2-13.htm">Jeremiah 2:13</a> echo this sentiment, illustrating the futility of seeking fulfillment outside of a relationship with God. The prophetic message is clear: true satisfaction and peace come only from faithfulness to God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet of God who ministered to the Israelites during their Babylonian exile. He is known for his vivid visions and symbolic actions.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/c/chaldea.htm">Chaldea</a></b><br>A region in southern Mesopotamia, known for its wealth and commerce. It was part of the Babylonian Empire and often associated with idolatry and pagan practices.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation chosen by God, often depicted in Ezekiel as an unfaithful wife due to their idolatry and alliances with pagan nations.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The sovereign Lord who speaks through Ezekiel, expressing His disappointment and anger over Israel's spiritual adultery.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/p/promiscuity.htm">Promiscuity</a></b><br>Used metaphorically to describe Israel's unfaithfulness to God through idolatry and political alliances with pagan nations.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_adultery.htm">Spiritual Adultery</a></b><br>Just as Israel was unfaithful to God by seeking satisfaction in other nations and their gods, Christians today must guard against idolatry in any form, whether it be materialism, power, or other distractions from God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_insatiable_nature_of_sin.htm">The Insatiable Nature of Sin</a></b><br>The verse highlights that even after extending their promiscuity to Chaldea, Israel was not satisfied. This teaches that sin never truly satisfies and only leads to a deeper void.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_call_to_faithfulness.htm">God's Call to Faithfulness</a></b><br>Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God continually calls His people back to a covenant relationship with Him. Christians are reminded of the importance of remaining faithful to God and His commandments.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_idolatry.htm">The Consequences of Idolatry</a></b><br>Israel's alliances with pagan nations led to their downfall. Believers are warned of the spiritual and sometimes physical consequences of turning away from God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_16.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 16</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_tyre's_prophecy_match_history.htm">In Ezekiel 27, how can the prophecy of Tyre's total destruction be reconciled with historical evidence that Tyre persisted for centuries?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_8's_view_on_idols_compare.htm">How does the severe condemnation of these idolatries in Ezekiel 8 align or conflict with other biblical accounts of tolerating foreign gods?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_ezekiel_16_3_say_jerusalem's_ancestry_is_amorite_and_hittite.htm">How can Ezekiel 16:3 claim Jerusalem's ancestry is Amorite and Hittite when historical records emphasize Israel's descent from Abraham?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_isaiah_19_differ_from_ezekiel_29.htm">Why does Isaiah 19's prophecy differ from other prophetic passages about Egypt (e.g., Ezekiel 29) if they both claim divine judgment?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/16.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(29) <span class= "bld">In the land of Canaan unto Chaldaea.</span>--Canaan was originally the name of only that strip of land between the hills and the sea occupied by the Ph?nicians, in other words, the lowlands. Thence it became extended over the whole land. It is thought by some writers to revert here to its original meaning, and be equivalent to the low, flat land. The expression will become clearer if translated, "the Canaan land Chaldaea." The word, however, bears also the meaning of traffic, commerce (<a href="/isaiah/23-8.htm" title="Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?">Isaiah 23:8</a>; <a href="/hosea/12-7.htm" title="He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.">Hosea 12:7</a>; <a href="/zephaniah/1-11.htm" title="Howl, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.">Zephaniah 1:11</a>), and in this sense is applied to Babylon in <a href="/ezekiel/17-4.htm" title="He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.">Ezekiel 17:4</a>, and this is the better meaning here. The idea will then be that Israel, beginning its idolatries in the actual Canaan, had extended them along with her commercial intercourse on every side, until at last she had carried them even to Chaldaea, the great commercial emporium of the time.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/16.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 29.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">In the land of Canaan,</span> etc. The words at first seem to give the nearest and furthest points of the intercourse of Israel with foreign nations. I incline, however, with Smend and the margin of the Revised Version, to take Canaan in its secondary sense as "the land of traffick," Chaldea being in apposition with it (comp. <a href="/isaiah/23-8.htm">Isaiah 23:8</a>; <a href="/hosea/12-7.htm">Hosea 12:7</a>; <a href="/zephaniah/1-11.htm">Zephaniah 1:11</a>, for a like use of the Hebrew word). Chaldea thus comes in its right place as closing the list of the nations with whom the harlot city had been unfaithful. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">So you extended</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתַּרְבִּ֧י</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tar·bî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7235.htm">Strong's 7235: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be or become much, many or great</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your promiscuity</span><br /><span class="heb">תַּזְנוּתֵ֛ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(taz·nū·ṯêḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8457.htm">Strong's 8457: </a> </span><span class="str2">Harlotry, idolatry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶל־</span> <span class="translit">(’el-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near, with, among, to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Chaldea,</span><br /><span class="heb">כַּשְׂדִּ֑ימָה</span> <span class="translit">(kaś·dî·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3778.htm">Strong's 3778: </a> </span><span class="str2">Chaldeans -- a region of southern Babylon and its inhab</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the land</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶ֥רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(’e·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of merchants—</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּנַ֖עַן</span> <span class="translit">(kə·na·‘an)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3667.htm">Strong's 3667: </a> </span><span class="str2">Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan</span><br /><br /><span class="word">but even</span><br /><span class="heb">וְגַם־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḡam-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1571.htm">Strong's 1571: </a> </span><span class="str2">Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with this</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּזֹ֖את</span> <span class="translit">(bə·zōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Pronoun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2063.htm">Strong's 2063: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that, </span><br /><br /><span class="word">you were not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹ֥א</span> <span class="translit">(lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">satisfied!</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׂבָֽעַתְּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(śā·ḇā·‘at)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7646.htm">Strong's 7646: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be sated, satisfied or surfeited</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Ezekiel 16:29 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/16-29.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 16:29 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution (Ezek. 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