Ezekiel 16:16 - Exposition

(For high places , see note on Ezekiel 6:6 .) The words imply that the shrines upon them were decked with hangings of many coloured tapestry, presenting an appearance like that of a Persian carpet, as in 2 Kings 23:7 , of the image of the Asherah. Those hangings were, as in Proverbs 7:16 , the ornaments of the adulterous bed. The "high places" are named first, as the earliest form of idolatry. The like things shall not come . The words are obscure, and the text probably corrupt. As they stand, they seem to say that the world would never again witness so shameful an apostasy. The Vulgate, Sicut non est factum neque futurum est; extends the comparison to the past. Possibly, though it is a strain upon the grammar, the words may be rendered, "such things should not come, should not be."