John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 16:29

"Thou hast moreover multiplied thy whoredom unto the land of traffic, unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith." — Ezekiel 16:29 (ASV)

You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of
Canaan

Or, "with the land of Canaan" ^F12; with the inhabitants of it, doing the same evils, committing the same idolatries, as the old inhabitants of Canaan did; and so the Targum, ``and you have multiplied your idols, that you might be joined to the people of Canaan:'' or, "to the land of Canaan" ^F13; like to the land of Canaan; according to the abominations of the Canaanites, doing as they did.

Jarchi takes the word Canaan to signify a "merchant", as it does in (Hosea 12:7); and the land of Canaan to be the same with the land of Chaldea, called a land of traffic, and Babylon the city of merchants, (Ezekiel 17:4); since it follows, unto Chaldea:

but the sense is, that the Jews were not content with the idolatries in the land of Canaan, but sent even to Chaldea, a remote country, to fetch new idols from thence; see (Ezekiel 23:14–16). The Targum is, ``to walk in the laws of the Chaldeans;'' their religious ones, their rites and ceremonies respecting idolatrous worship: and yet you were not satisfied with this;

but still wanted other idols and modes of worship; not being content with the gods of the Egyptians, nor of the Assyrians, nor of the Canaanites, nor of the Chaldeans.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F12: Nenk Ura la "cum terra Canaan", Munster, so some in Vatablus, Tigurine version, Noldius, p. 39. No. 288.
• F13: "ad terram Canaan", so some in Vatablus. Approved by Kimchi and Ben Melech.