New American Standard Bible 2020
Ezekiel 23:11-21
11“Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was 1more corrupt in her lust than she, and her obscene practices were 2more than the prostitution of her sister. 12She lusted after the 34Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, opulently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them handsome young men. 13And I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took 5the same way. 14So she increased her obscene practices. And she saw men 6carved on the wall, images of the 7Chaldeans drawn in bright red, 15wearing belts around their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, 8like the 9Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. 16And 10when she saw them she 11lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17And the 1213Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their obscene practice. And when she had been defiled by them, 14she turned away from them in disgust. 18She 15exposed her obscene practices and exposed her nakedness; then 16I turned away from her in 17disgust, just as 18I had turned away from her 19sister in disgust. 19Yet she multiplied her obscene practices, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt. 20She 20lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose discharge is like the discharge of horses. 21So you longed for the 21outrageous sin of your youth, when 22the Egyptians handled your breasts because of the breasts of your youth.
Notes
- 1. Ezekiel 23:11 Jer 3:8-11; Ezek 16:51 ↩
- 2. Ezekiel 23:11 I.e., more numerous, or worse ↩
- 3. Ezekiel 23:12 Lit sons of Asshur ↩
- 4. Ezekiel 23:12 2 Kin 16:7 ↩
- 5. Ezekiel 23:13 Lit one ↩
- 6. Ezekiel 23:14 Ezek 8:10 ↩
- 7. Ezekiel 23:14 Ezek 16:29 ↩
- 8. Ezekiel 23:15 Lit the likeness of ↩
- 9. Ezekiel 23:15 Lit sons of Babel ↩
- 10. Ezekiel 23:16 Lit at the sight of her eyes ↩
- 11. Ezekiel 23:16 Ezek 23:20; Matt 5:28 ↩
- 12. Ezekiel 23:17 Lit sons of Babel ↩
- 13. Ezekiel 23:17 2 Kin 24:17 ↩
- 14. Ezekiel 23:17 Lit her soul ↩
- 15. Ezekiel 23:18 Jer 8:12; Ezek 21:24; 23:10 ↩
- 16. Ezekiel 23:18 Lit My soul ↩
- 17. Ezekiel 23:18 Ps 78:59; 106:40; Jer 12:8 ↩
- 18. Ezekiel 23:18 Lit My soul ↩
- 19. Ezekiel 23:18 Ezek 23:9; Amos 5:21 ↩
- 20. Ezekiel 23:20 Ezek 16:26; 17:15 ↩
- 21. Ezekiel 23:21 Jer 3:9; Ezek 23:3 ↩
- 22. Ezekiel 23:21 As in two mss; MT from Egypt ↩
Commentaries on Ezekiel 23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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