Ezekiel 16:16

And of thy garments thou didst take ,.... Which were made of fine linen, silk, and broidered work; which God had given them, and they were richly clad with:

and deckedst thy high places with divers colours ; that is, with garments of divers colours; either they erected tents on their high places, made with these; or they covered their altars with them, which were on their high places for the ornament of them, as harlots deck their beds to allure their lovers; see Proverbs 7:16 ; or "thou hast made for thyself high places spotted" F4 ותעשי לך במות טלאות "et fecisti tibi excelsa maculosa", Montanus; "excelsa conspera maculis", Calvin; "latis maculis interstincta", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus. ; so the word is rendered in Genesis 30:32 ; alluding to garments spotted with the flesh by adulterers. The Targum is, "thou hast made for thyself high places covered with idols": and so the Septuagint version renders it, "idols sewed together". The word, in the Talmudic language F5 T. Bab. Gittin. fol. 45. 2. Misn. Celim, c. 27. sect. 6. , has the signification of sewing. These idols were decked as children's babies are; and so the Syriac version, "thou hast made for thyself babies"; images like babies, richly dressed with their garments above described, such as the papists now have;

and playedst the harlot thereon ; committed idolatry on the high places; or "with them" F6 עליהם "iisque", Ar. Interp. ; that is, with the images and idols decked with their garments, which were set on those high places:

the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so ; the like idolatries shall set be committed any more; and after the Babylonish captivity worshipping of idols was not practised by the Jews; nor is it to this day: or such "things have not come yet", and there "shall not be" the like F7 לא באות ולא יהיה "non eventurae sunt tales scortationes , nec erit qui sic scortetur ", Piscator. ; the sense is, there never were such idolatries committed by this people before; and there hover shall be, or will be, the like afterwards. Kimchi's note is,

"the high places shall not come as these; as if it was said these shall not be in futurity; and there shall not be a man or a people that shall make like these for multitudes;'

so Ben Melech; and במות , "high places", does agree with באות , "come". The Targum joins this with the preceding clause,

""and playedst the harlot" with them, as is not right and fit'