Ezekiel 23
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Ezekiel 23:11-21

11And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.12

12She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

13Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,

14And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

15Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

16And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.3

17And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.45

18So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

19Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

20For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

21Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

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  1. 1. Ezekiel 23:11 she was…: Heb. she corrupted her inordinate love more than, etc ↩
  2. 2. Ezekiel 23:11 more than…: Heb. more than the whoredoms of her sister ↩
  3. 3. Ezekiel 23:16 as soon…: Heb. at the sight of her eyes ↩
  4. 4. Ezekiel 23:17 Babylonians: Heb. children of Babel ↩
  5. 5. Ezekiel 23:17 alienated: Heb. loosed, or, disjointed ↩

Commentaries on Ezekiel 23

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