24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
24 you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square.
24 you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.
24 At every major intersection you built your bold brothels and exposed your sluttish sex, spreading your legs for everyone who passed by.
24 that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.
24 you built a pagan shrine and put altars to idols in every town square.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 16:24
Commentary on Ezekiel 16:1-58
(Read Ezekiel 16:1-58)
In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.