Ezekiel 16:26

"You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution."

Key Reflection

In Ezekiel 16:26, God describes Israel's spiritual adultery as constructing places of worship at prominent intersections—symbolizing the nation’s willingness to compromise its faith for temporary gains. By doing so, they made their devotion to God repulsive and freely engaged in idolatry with passing nations.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Egyptian idolatry, a worship of the powers of nature, was eminently sensual. The idolatry here spoken of is not so much that which Israel brought with them from Egypt, as the idolatry introduced in the time of Solomon and Rehoboam.

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