Ezekiel 20:29
Good News Translation
I asked them: What are these high places where you go? So they have been called 'High Places' ever since.

New Revised Standard Version
(I said to them, What is the high place to which you go? So it is called Bamah to this day.)

Contemporary English Version
I asked them where they went to worship those gods, and they answered, "At the local shrines." And those places of worship are still called shrines.

New American Bible
So I said to them, “What is this high place to which you go?” Thus its name became “high place” even to this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which you go? and the name thereof was called High-place even to this day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which you go? and the name thereof was called High-place even to this day.

Ezekiel 16:24,25,31 That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street. . . .

Context
Israel's Rebellion in the Land
28And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and poured forth their libations. 29And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which you go? and the name thereof was called High-place even to this day.30Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Verily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers, and you commit fornication with their abominations.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:24
That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.

Ezekiel 20:28
And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and poured forth their libations.

Ezekiel 20:30
Wherefore say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Verily, you are defiled in the way of your fathers, and you commit fornication with their abominations.

Ezekiel 20:28
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