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and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/16.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />You also committed prostitution with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your obscene practice to provoke Me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and you multiplied your harlotry to provoke Me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/16.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />You also prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors [by embracing their pagan rituals], and you multiplied your obscene immorality to provoke Me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/16.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to anger me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to provoke Me to anger.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/16.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/16.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />To make me angry, you even offered yourself to Egyptians, who were always ready to sleep with you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/16.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/16.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />You had sex with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians. You used your prostitution to make me angry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/16.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/16.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Then you committed immorality with your neighbors, the Egyptians, with perverted lust, and by doing so you fornicated even more, provoking me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/16.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/16.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/16.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy lewd deeds, to provoke me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/16.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/16.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And go whoring to sons of Egypt, "" Your neighbors—great of appetite! And you multiply your whoredoms, "" To provoke Me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And dost go a-whoring unto sons of Egypt, Thy neighbours -- great of appetite! And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms, To provoke Me to anger.<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 commit fornication with the sons of Egypt thy neighbors, great of flesh: and thou wilt multiply thy fornications to irritate me.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, men of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy fornications to provoke me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/16.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And you fornicated with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, who have large bodies. And you multiplied your fornications, so as to provoke me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You served as a prostitute with the Egyptians, your big-membered neighbors, and multiplied your prostitutions to provoke me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.<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 also played the harlot with the Egyptians your neighbors, who have large male organs; and you have multiplied your fornications, to provoke me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And you fornicated with the children of Egypt your neighbor, great ones of flesh, and you multiplied your fornications and you angered me<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 also played the harlot with the Egyptians, thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy harlotry, to provoke Me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/16.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And thou didst go a-whoring after the children of Egypt thy neighbors, great of flesh; and didst go a-whoring, often to provoke me to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/16-26.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=3734" 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">25</span>At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by. <span class="reftext">26</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2181.htm" title="2181: wat·tiz·nî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-2fs) -- To commit fornication, be a harlot. A primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to commit idolatry.">You prostituted yourself</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">with</a> <a href="/hebrew/1432.htm" title="1432: giḏ·lê (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc) -- Becoming great, growing up. From gadal; large.">your lustful</a> <a href="/hebrew/1320.htm" title="1320: ḇā·śār (N-ms) -- Flesh. From basar; flesh; by extension, body, person; also The pudenda of a man."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7934.htm" title="7934: šə·ḵê·na·yiḵ (N-mpc:: 2fs) -- Inhabitant, neighbor. From shakan; a resident; by extension, a fellow-citizen.">neighbors,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4714.htm" title="4714: miṣ·ra·yim (N-proper-fs) -- A son of Ham, also his desc. and their country in N.W. Africa. Dual of matsowr; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt.">the Egyptians,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: bə·nê- (N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.)."></a> <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.">and increased</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·nu·ṯêḵ (N-fsc:: 2fs) -- Fornication. Or taznuth; from zanah; harlotry, i.e. idolatry.">your promiscuity</a> <a href="/hebrew/3707.htm" title="3707: lə·haḵ·‘î·sê·nî (Prep-l:: V-Hifil-Inf:: 1cs) -- To be vexed or angry. A primitive root; to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignant.">to provoke Me to anger.</a> </span><span class="reftext">27</span>Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.…<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="/isaiah/57-3.htm">Isaiah 57:3-8</a></span><br />“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! / Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit, / who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? ...<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="/jeremiah/2-20.htm">Jeremiah 2:20-25</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. / I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine? / Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-12</a></span><br />All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. ...<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="/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/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/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="/2_chronicles/28-22.htm">2 Chronicles 28:22-25</a></span><br />In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD. / He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel. / Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem. ...<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="/james/4-4.htm">James 4:4</a></span><br />You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20-22</a></span><br />But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. / Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. / Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-15.htm">1 Corinthians 6:15-20</a></span><br />Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! / Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” / But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24-25</a></span><br />Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your prostitutions, to provoke me to anger.</p><p class="hdg">with the</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Ezekiel 8:10,14</a></b></br> So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/20-7.htm">Ezekiel 20:7,8</a></b></br> Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I <i>am</i> the LORD your God… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/23-3.htm">Ezekiel 23:3,8,19-21</a></b></br> And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/13-13.htm">Anger</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-22.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-19.htm">Appetite</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-15.htm">A-Whoring</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-17.htm">Commit</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-17.htm">Committed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-6.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-6.htm">Egyptians</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-17.htm">Engaged</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-19.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-17.htm">Fornication</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-7.htm">Great</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-17.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-9.htm">Immorality</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-7.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm">Increasing</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-9.htm">Lewd</a> <a href="/ezekiel/10-11.htm">Moving</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm">Multiplied</a> <a 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href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Fornication</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-41.htm">Great</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/matthew/5-32.htm">Immorality</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-13.htm">Increasing</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-27.htm">Lewd</a> <a href="/daniel/7-2.htm">Moving</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-6.htm">Multiplying</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-57.htm">Neighbors</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-12.htm">Neighbours</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Played</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/luke/11-53.htm">Provoke</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-43.htm">Provoked</a> <a href="/matthew/5-32.htm">Sexual</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-27.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Whoredom</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-33.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-38.htm">Wrath</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'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/16.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/16.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors</b><br>This phrase uses the metaphor of prostitution to describe Israel's unfaithfulness to God. In the Old Testament, idolatry is often depicted as spiritual adultery. The Israelites were called to be a holy nation, set apart for God, but they frequently turned to the practices and gods of surrounding nations. The term "lustful neighbors" refers to the nations around Israel that were known for their idolatrous practices and moral corruption. This imagery is consistent with other prophetic writings, such as Hosea, where Israel's unfaithfulness is likened to a wife's infidelity.<p><b>the Egyptians</b><br>Egypt is frequently mentioned in the Bible as a symbol of worldly power and idolatry. Historically, Egypt was a dominant force in the region and often a temptation for Israel to seek political alliances and military support, rather than relying on God. The Israelites' past enslavement in Egypt also serves as a backdrop for their recurring temptation to return to Egyptian ways, both physically and spiritually. This reference highlights Israel's tendency to look back to Egypt for security, despite God's deliverance from there.<p><b>and increased your promiscuity</b><br>The increase in promiscuity signifies a deepening of Israel's idolatrous practices. This is not just a return to previous sins but an escalation, indicating a growing distance from God. The prophets often warned Israel about the consequences of such actions, emphasizing that their spiritual infidelity would lead to judgment. This phrase underscores the seriousness of Israel's rebellion and the extent to which they have abandoned their covenant relationship with God.<p><b>to provoke Me to anger</b><br>God's anger is a response to Israel's covenant unfaithfulness. In the biblical context, God's anger is not arbitrary but a just reaction to sin and idolatry. The covenant established at Sinai included blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience (Deuteronomy 28). Israel's actions provoked God because they violated the terms of this covenant, showing disregard for His holiness and love. This phrase serves as a warning of impending judgment, a theme prevalent in the prophetic books, where God's patience is contrasted with His righteous judgment.<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 conveyed God's messages, often using vivid imagery and allegory.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation chosen by God, often depicted in the Bible as His bride. In this passage, Israel is portrayed as unfaithful, engaging in spiritual adultery.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/e/egyptians.htm">Egyptians</a></b><br>A neighboring nation known for its idolatry and immorality. Historically, Egypt was a place of bondage for Israel, and its culture was often at odds with the worship of Yahweh.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/p/prostitution/adultery.htm">Prostitution/Adultery</a></b><br>Used metaphorically to describe Israel's unfaithfulness to God through idolatry and alliances with pagan nations.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/g/god's_anger.htm">God's Anger</a></b><br>Represents God's righteous indignation towards Israel's repeated unfaithfulness and idolatry.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_fidelity.htm">Spiritual Fidelity</a></b><br>Just as God called Israel to be faithful, Christians are called to remain devoted to Christ, avoiding spiritual adultery through idolatry or worldly alliances.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_unfaithfulness.htm">Consequences of Unfaithfulness</a></b><br>Israel's actions provoked God's anger, reminding us that our choices have spiritual consequences and can affect our relationship with God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a></b><br>Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God's desire is for repentance and restoration, offering hope for those who turn back to Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/guarding_against_idolatry.htm">Guarding Against Idolatry</a></b><br>In a modern context, idolatry can take many forms, such as materialism or prioritizing relationships over God. Believers must remain vigilant in their devotion.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/learning_from_history.htm">Learning from History</a></b><br>The history of Israel serves as a warning and a lesson for believers today, encouraging us to learn from past mistakes and remain steadfast in our faith.<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/who's_the_whore_of_babylon.htm">Who is the Whore of Babylon in biblical prophecy?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_zech._10_3_conflict_with_righteous_leaders.htm">Zechariah 10:3: Does punishing the 'shepherds' conflict with other passages that present divinely appointed leaders as righteous?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_no_record_of_egypt's_40-year_desolation.htm">In Ezekiel 29:9-12, the prophecy states that Egypt will be desolate for 40 years; why is there no clear historical record of such a period?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_verify_godand#8217;s_temple_threat_in_jer_26.htm">In Jeremiah 26:1-6, how do we verify historically or archaeologically that God threatened the temple's destruction?</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>(26) <span class= "bld">The Egyptians . . . great of flesh.</span>--The Egyptians are properly named first, because, even in the golden calf of the wilderness, the Israelites turned with avidity to the worship of Egypt. This tendency seems to have been only suppressed, not extinguished, during the subsequent ages, and remained ever ready to develop itself, as in the calves of Jeroboam (<a href="/context/1_kings/12-28.htm" title="Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.">1Kings 12:28-30</a>); but it received great accession of strength during the reigns of Solomon and his successors. The Egyptians are called "great of flesh" from the character of their popular worship, which was a thoroughly sensuous nature worship. The connection of Israel with Egypt in the latter part of the monarchy was not only religious, but political, in bold defiance of the reiterated Divine commands. Especially at this time, a great part of the work of Jeremiah was to oppose the tendency of the successive kings of Judah to alliance with Egypt.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/16.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 26.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">With the Egyptians.</span> The words point to political and commercial alliances, in themselves a whoredom (<a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">Isaiah 23:17</a>; <a href="/nahum/3-4.htm">Nahum 3:4</a>), such as Zedekiah, like some of his predecessors, had trusted in, as well as to the adoption of Egyptian worship, such as we have seen in <a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Ezekiel 8:10</a>, the one leading naturally to the other. The words, <span class="cmt_word">great of flesh,</span> may point, as we interpret the parable, to the supposed strength of the stout and stalwart soldiers, the chariots and horses of the Egyptians, but possibly also may be a euphemism for the mere animal vigour which stimulated passion. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/16-26.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">You prostituted yourself</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתִּזְנִ֧י</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tiz·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2181.htm">Strong's 2181: </a> </span><span class="str2">To commit adultery, to commit idolatry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with</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">your lustful</span><br /><span class="heb">גִּדְלֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(giḏ·lê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1432.htm">Strong's 1432: </a> </span><span class="str2">Becoming great, growing up</span><br /><br /><span class="word">neighbors,</span><br /><span class="heb">שְׁכֵנַ֖יִךְ</span> <span class="translit">(šə·ḵê·na·yiḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7934.htm">Strong's 7934: </a> </span><span class="str2">A resident, a fellow-citizen</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Egyptians,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִצְרַ֛יִם</span> <span class="translit">(miṣ·ra·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4714.htm">Strong's 4714: </a> </span><span class="str2">Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and increased</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתַּרְבִּ֥י</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">תַּזְנֻתֵ֖ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(taz·nu·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 provoke Me to anger.</span><br /><span class="heb">לְהַכְעִיסֵֽנִי׃</span> <span class="translit">(lə·haḵ·‘î·sê·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3707.htm">Strong's 3707: </a> </span><span class="str2">To trouble, to grieve, rage, be indignant</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Ezekiel 16:26 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/16-26.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 16:26 You have also committed sexual immorality (Ezek. 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