Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 16:25
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
25. thy high place ] See Eze 16:24.
made to be abhorred ] This sense is doubtful; the word means to abominate, hence dishonour or disregard, or as we might say “prostitute thy beauty.”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Not content with what was done in the city, she built her idol temples and shows in the country, in places where many ways or roads met, wheresoever it was likely passengers would come.
Hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, as the beauty of a shameless whore is abhorred by them to whom she offers herself. In her high places every passenger might meet his own god, and worship his own idol, and then satisfy his lust with lewd women, common as the street; and this made men abhor that beauty they would have admired, dressed in modesty, and dwelling retired.
Hast opened thy feet; a modest expressing of the most immodest practice of lewd and insatiable adulteresses and whores, which are ready for every comer, and tempt such as tempt not them, Eze 16:32,33.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
25. at every head of the wayinthe most frequented places (Pr9:14).
thy beauty . . . abhorred, .. . opened . . . feet to every oneThe wanton advances were allon Israel’s part; the idolatrous nations yielded to her nothing inreturn. She had yielded so much that, like a worn-out prostitute, hertempters became weary of her. When the Church lowers her testimonyfor God to the carnal tastes of the world, with a view toconciliation, she loses everything and gains nothing.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way,…. Where two or more ways, or two or more streets, met; and so was most conspicuous, and was seen from different parts; which shows the same as before:
and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred; by the Lord himself, Who otherwise greatly desires and delights in the beauty of his people, when they worship him, Ps 45:11; and by all good men, and such as fear the Lord, who cannot but abhor such idolatrous practices, and those that are guilty of them; and even by the Heathens themselves, to whom the Jews became mean and despicable, when they fell into idolatry, and under the displeasure of God, whom they forsook; as a common strumpet becomes, in process of time, loathsome to her quondam lovers:
and hast opened thy feet to everyone that passed by; an euphemism, signifying the exposing to view the privities or secret parts, in order to allure to impure embraces; and the meaning is, that the Jews were ready to receive any idol, and give into any idolatrous worship that offered to them, and even courted and solicited the Gentiles to join with them in all idolatrous practices:
and multiplied thy whoredoms; or idolatries; the number of their idols being answerable to their cities, and even were as many as the streets and heads of ways in them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He now adds, that he made their beauty to be abhorred. I have no doubt that the Prophet alludes to the filthiness of abandoned women; and even the Latins called them “worn out,” whose foulness arises from their utterly giving themselves up to every wickedness. The Prophet then says that the people were not only like an abandoned woman who engages in impure amours, but that their conduct was gross in the extreme; for though many gratify improper desires through intemperate lust, yet they fastidiously reject those foul and shameless females who are notorious for profligacy. The Prophet means, then, that the people had come to such a pitch of abomination, just as the most abandoned of the sex. He now adds, you have spread thy feet to every passer-by, and have multiplied thy fornications. This is taken also from the conduct of harlots and confirms what we have already explained, that the Jews indulged not only in one kind of idolatry, but were prone to all abominations, like females who beset the paths, and address all they meet, and not only so, but shamelessly spread their feet everywhere to entice admirers.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
25. To every one that passed by This unfaithful wife has become a common prostitute (see Eze 16:15; Eze 23:40). The religion which was her beauty has become abhorrent since it has been mixed with the vile practices and superstitions of every false cult. “This description is certainly not to our taste, but it must be remembered that Ezekiel’s object was to excite this very feeling of disgust.” Smend.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Eze 16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
Ver. 25. And hast made thy beauty to be abhorred. ] By being made so cheap and common. Sin is a reproach to any people, Pro 14:34 idolatry especially. 1Pe 4:3
And hast opened thy feet.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
at every: Eze 16:31, Gen 38:14, Gen 38:21, Pro 9:14, Pro 9:15, Isa 3:9, Jer 2:23, Jer 2:24, Jer 3:2, Jer 6:15
and hast made: Eze 23:9, Eze 23:10, Eze 23:32, Rev 17:1-5, Rev 17:12, Rev 17:13, Rev 17:16
Reciprocal: Gen 39:7 – Lie Deu 31:16 – and go a Jdg 10:6 – the gods of the Philistines 1Ki 12:31 – an house 1Ki 14:23 – built Pro 7:12 – General Isa 57:7 – General Isa 57:8 – thou lovedst Jer 2:20 – when upon Jer 3:6 – she is Jer 3:13 – and hast scattered Jer 5:6 – because Jer 11:15 – seeing Eze 16:15 – and pouredst Eze 16:39 – they shall throw Eze 20:29 – I said Eze 23:19 – multiplied Hos 2:2 – let Hos 4:13 – sacrifice
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 16:25. Head of the way means the street corners, they being places to attract the eyes of the passers-by on the several thoroughfares. Opened thy feet refers to the voluntary position taken by a harlot in yielding her body for the act of adultery. Beauty to be abhorred. This wicked woman had made advances to every one that passed by, and that made her to be detested even by the men who practiced immorality. Men seeking the unrighteous indulgence will finally tire of a woman who goes too far in her brazen solicitations.