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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 16:33 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 16:33 |
Strong Concordance |
They give [05414] gifts [05078] to all whores [02181]: but thou givest [05414] thy gifts [05083] to all thy lovers [0157], and hirest [07809] them, that they may come [0935] unto thee on every side [05439] for thy whoredom [08457]. |
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King James |
They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Israel hired her paramours, instead of being, like other harlots, hired by them; she also followed them without their following her. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The picture is heightened by the contrast between one who as a prostitute receives hire for her shame, and one who as a wife is so utterly abandoned as to bestow her husband's goods to purchase her own dishonor. Compare Kg2 16:8. |
8 And Ahaz [0271] took [03947] the silver [03701] and gold [02091] that was found [04672] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and in the treasures [0214] of the king's [04428] house [01004], and sent [07971] it for a present [07810] to the king [04428] of Assyria [0804].