Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:31

31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every stree[illegible: 1 letter], and hast not been as an harlot in that thou scornest hire.

See ver. 24. Whereas the Paramours of other lewd Women build for them, as it is reported of Solomon, 1 Kings 11.7, 8, 9. Here on the contrary this unfaithful Nation forsake their God, commit fornication with strange Gods, and bear the charges both of building their Temples, and furnishing them with Sacrifices, and maintaining the Priests.

ver. 24.

ver. 25.

ver. 24.

Common Harlots make gain of their looseness, and live by that gain, these make a prey of the men that come into them; thou doest worse, thou lavishest out thy credit, wealth, and all for to maintain, and please thine Adulterers.

The Hebrew word is of two significations, and each opposite to other, for it bears as our Translation renders it, contempt, slighting, or disregarding; and so it suteth with what follows, ver. 32, 33, 34. It signifieth also to praise, value, and regard, as Buxtorfe observes, and it will as well, if not better, be so rendred here, and be the character of a common Harlot, which wandreth after her Lovers with a design of receiving the rewards of her lewdness; and thus the Chalde[illegible: 1 letter] Paraphr. reads it; so we shall need no Parenthesis; nor begin the Antithe[illegible: 1 letter]is till the 32 verse.

Marginal references: Or, In thy daughters is thine, &c.