Ezekiel 16:15
Context16:15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty 1 became his.
Ezekiel 16:33
Context16:33 All prostitutes receive payment, 2 but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!
Ezekiel 18:6
Context18:6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains 3 or pray to the idols 4 of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not have sexual relations with a 5 woman during her period,
Ezekiel 23:7
Context23:7 She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired 6 – with all their idols.
1 tn Heb “it” (so KJV, ASV); the referent (the beauty in which the prostitute trusted, see the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
3 tn Heb, “on the mountains he does not eat.” The mountains are often mentioned as the place where idolatrous sacrifices were eaten (Ezek 20:28; 22:9; 34:6).
4 tn Heb, “does not lift up his eyes.” This refers to looking to idols for help.
5 tn Heb, “does not draw near to.” “Draw near” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse (Lev 18:14; Deut 22:14; Isa 8:3).
6 tn Heb “lusted after.”