The fact that such depraved individuals, both men and women, devoted to religious prostitution, were quartered in a house adjoining the Temple is a sad commentary on the moral collapse that had taken place among the professed people of God. The vile and immoral practices here carried on were part of the idolatrous ceremonial of the times. Ezekiel denounced the “wicked abominations” carried on in the Temple area in his day (Eze. 8:5-17). The worst infamies of Canaanite nature worship had made their way into the holy Temple of God. Judah could hardly have sunk to lower depths.