Ezekiel 23
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The Sins of Oholah and Oholibah
1The word of the Lord came again to me, saying: 2Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. 3#Lev 17:7; Jos 24:14And they committed harlotries in Egypt. They committed harlotries in their youth. There their breasts were pressed, and there their virgin bosom was handled. 4#Eze 16:8Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. And they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
Samaria
5#2Ki 15:19; 16:7Oholah played the harlot when she was Mine. And she lusted after her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors, 6who were clothed in purple, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. 7#Hos 5:3; 6:10Thus she committed her harlotries with them, with all those who were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself. 8#Ex 32:4; Eze 23:3She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt. For in her youth they lay with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured their harlotry upon her.
9#2Ki 15:29; 17:23Therefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians after whom she doted. 10#Eze 23:29; Hos 2:10They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters and killed her with the sword. And she became a byword among women, for they had executed judgments on her.
Jerusalem
11#Jer 3:8–11Now her sister Oholibah saw this, but she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries. 12#2Ki 16:7–15She lusted after the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. 13Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both took the same way.
14#Eze 8:10; Jer 22:14So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15girded with belts on their loins, exceeding in dyed attire on their heads, all of them looking like officials, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity. 16#Eze 16:29; Mt 5:28And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. 17#Eze 23:22; 23:28The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry, and she was polluted with them, and her soul became disgusted with them. 18#Ps 78:59; 106:40So she uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness. Then My soul became disgusted with her, as My soul became disgusted with her sister. 19#Eze 23:3Yet she multiplied her harlotries while remembering the days of her youth in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. 20#Eze 16:26; 17:15For she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses. 21Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.
Judgment on Jerusalem
22#Eze 16:37Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side: 23#Jer 50:21; 2Ki 20:14–17the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them. All of them are desirable young men, captains and rulers, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 24#Jer 39:5–6; 47:3They shall come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons, and with an assembly of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. And I will set the judgment before them, and they shall judge you according to their customs. 25#Eze 23:47; Ex 34:14I will set My jealousy against you, so that they deal furiously with you. They shall take away your nose and your ears. And your remnant shall fall by the sword. They shall take your sons and your daughters. And your remnant shall be devoured by the fire. 26#Eze 16:39; Jer 13:22They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your fair jewels. 27#Eze 16:41; 23:3Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
28#Jer 34:20; Eze 16:37For thus says the Lord God: I will deliver you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom you were alienated. 29#Eze 16:39; 23:25–26And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries. 30#Eze 6:9I will do these things to you because you have gone whoring after the nations, because you have polluted yourself with their idols. 31#2Ki 21:13; Jer 7:14–15You have walked in the way of your sister. Therefore I will give her cup into your hand.
32#Ps 60:3; Isa 51:17Thus says the Lord God:
You shall drink of your sister’s cup,
which is deep and wide;
you shall be laughed to scorn and held in derision;
it contains much.
33#Isa 51:17; Jer 25:27 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
the cup of horror and desolation,
the cup of your sister Samaria.
34#Ps 75:8; Isa 51:17 You shall drink it and drain it,
then you shall gnaw at its fragments
and tear off your own breasts;
for I have spoken, says the Lord God.
35#1Ki 14:9; Isa 17:10Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, now bear the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.
Judgment on the Sisters
36#Eze 22:2; Isa 58:1The Lord moreover said to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. 37#Eze 16:36; 16:20–21For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. Thus with their idols they have committed adultery and have also caused their sons whom they bore to Me to pass through the fire for them as food. 38#Eze 20:13; 2Ki 21:4Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary in the same day and have profaned My Sabbaths. 39#2Ki 21:4; Jer 23:11For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into My sanctuary to profane it. And thus they have done in the midst of My house.
40#2Ki 9:30; Jer 4:30Furthermore, they have even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and they came. For them you washed yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments. 41#Est 1:6; Isa 65:11And you sat on a stately couch with a table prepared before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.
42#Eze 16:11–12A sound of a multitude at ease was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads. 43Then I said to her who was worn out by adulteries, “Will they now commit harlotries with her when she is so?” 44Yet they went in to her as they go in to a woman who plays the harlot. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. 45#Lev 20:10; Hos 6:5But righteous men shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
46#Eze 16:40; Jer 15:4For thus says the Lord God: Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and devastation. 47#Jer 39:8; Eze 16:40–41The company shall stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. They shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
48#Eze 16:41; 23:27Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be warned and not commit lewdness as you have done. 49#Eze 7:4; 9:10Your lewdness shall be recompensed upon you, and you shall bear the punishment of worshipping your idols. Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.
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