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Ezekiel Chapter 23

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EZEKIEL

Ezekiel 23

1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
Ezekiel 16:44, Ezekiel 16:46, Jeremiah 3:7, Jeremiah 3:10, Ezekiel 16:44
3And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth they committed fornication: there were their breasts pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were bruised.
Leviticus 17:7, Leviticus 17:7, Joshua 24:14, Ezekiel 16:22, Joshua 24:14
4And their names were Oolla the elder, and Ooliba her younger sister: and I took them, and they bore sons and daughters. Now for their names, Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba.
Ezekiel 16:8, Ezekiel 16:8, 1 Kings 12:26, 1 Kings 12:33, Psalms 76:2
5And Oolla committed fornication against me, and doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians that came to her,
2 Kings 15:19, 2 Kings 17:3, Hosea 5:13, 2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 15:19
6Who were clothed with blue, princes, and rulers, beautiful youths, all horsemen, mounted upon horses.
Ezekiel 23:23, Ezekiel 23:23
7And she committed her fornications with those chosen men, all sons of the Assyrians: and she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all them on whom she doted.
Hosea 6:10, Hosea 5:3, Hosea 6:10, Hosea 5:3, Ezekiel 20:7
8Moreover also she did not forsake her fornications which she had committed in Egypt: for they also lay with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured out their fornication upon her.
Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:3, Exodus 32:4, Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:3
9Therefore have I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose lust she doted.
Hosea 11:5, 2 Kings 17:23, 2 Kings 15:29, Hosea 11:5, 2 Kings 17:23
10They discovered her disgrace, took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: and they became infamous women, and they executed judgments in her.
Hosea 2:10, Ezekiel 23:29, Hosea 2:10, Ezekiel 23:29, Jeremiah 22:8
11And when her sister Ooliba saw this, she was mad with lust more than she: and she carried her fornication beyond the fornication of her sister.
Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Ezekiel 16:47
12Impudently prostituting herself to the children of the Assyrians, the princes, and rulers that came to her, clothed with divers colours, to the horsemen that rode upon horses, and to young men all of great beauty.
2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:15, 2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:15, Ezekiel 23:5
13And I saw that she was defiled, and that they both took one way.
Ezekiel 23:31, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 12:2, 2 Kings 17:18, 2 Kings 17:19
14And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours,
Ezekiel 8:10, Ezekiel 8:10, Jeremiah 22:14, Jeremiah 22:14, Jeremiah 50:2
15And girded with girdles about their reins, and with dyed turbans on their heads, the resemblance of all the captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein they were born,
1 Samuel 18:4, 2 Samuel 14:25, Judges 8:18, Isaiah 22:21, 1 Samuel 18:4
16She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
Ezekiel 16:29, Ezekiel 16:29, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 5:28, Job 31:1
17And when the sons of Babylon were come to her to the bed of love, they defiled her with their fornications, and she was polluted by them, and her soul was glutted with them.
Ezekiel 23:22, Ezekiel 23:28, Ezekiel 23:22, Ezekiel 23:28, 2 Samuel 13:15
18And she discovered her fornications, and discovered her disgrace: and my soul was alienated from her, as my soul was alienated from her sister.
Psalms 78:59, Psalms 106:40, Jeremiah 12:8, Psalms 78:59, Psalms 106:40
19For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:21, Ezekiel 20:7, Amos 4:4
20And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.
Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 16:26, Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 16:26, Ezekiel 16:20
21And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken.
22Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about.
Ezekiel 16:37, Ezekiel 16:37, Revelation 17:16, Revelation 17:16, Isaiah 39:3
23The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen.
Jeremiah 50:21, Jeremiah 50:21, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 20:14, 2 Kings 20:17
24And they shall come upon thee well appointed with chariot and wheel, a multitude of people: they shall be armed against thee on every side with breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee by their judgments.
Ezekiel 16:38, Ezekiel 23:45, Nahum 2:3, Nahum 2:4, 2 Samuel 24:14
25And I will set my jealousy against thee, which they shall execute upon thee with fury: they shall cut off thy nose and thy ears: and what remains shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons, and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be devoured by fire.
Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 16:38, Ezekiel 16:42, Ezekiel 15:6
26And they shall strip thee of thy garments, and take away the instruments of thy glory.
Ezekiel 16:39, Ezekiel 16:39, Jeremiah 13:22, Jeremiah 13:22, Ezekiel 23:29
27And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
Ezekiel 16:41, Ezekiel 16:41, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:3
28For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hatest, into their hands with whom thy soul hath been glutted.
Ezekiel 23:17, Jeremiah 34:20, Ezekiel 16:37, Ezekiel 23:22, Ezekiel 23:17
29And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
Ezekiel 16:39, Ezekiel 23:45, Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 23:25, Ezekiel 23:26
30They have done these things to thee, because thou hast played the harlot with the nations among which thou wast defiled with their idols.
Ezekiel 6:9, Ezekiel 6:9, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Psalms 106:35
31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister and I will give her cup into thy hand.
2 Kings 21:13, Jeremiah 7:14, Jeremiah 7:15, 2 Kings 21:13, Jeremiah 7:14
32Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.
Psalms 60:3, Isaiah 51:17, Psalms 60:3, Isaiah 51:17, Ezekiel 22:4
33Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
Jeremiah 25:27, Isaiah 51:17, Jeremiah 25:27, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22
34And thou shalt drink it, and shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof, thou shalt rend thy breasts: because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
Psalms 75:8, Psalms 75:8, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:17, Ezekiel 23:8
35Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast forgotten me, and hast cast me off behind thy back, bear thou also thy wickedness, and thy fornications.
1 Kings 14:9, 1 Kings 14:9, Ezekiel 22:12, Jeremiah 3:21, Isaiah 17:10
36And the Lord spoke to me, saying: Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them their wicked deeds?
Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 20:4, Ezekiel 16:2, Isaiah 58:1
37Because they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and they have committed fornication with their idols: moreover also their children, whom they bore to me, they have offered to them to be devoured.
Ezekiel 16:36, Ezekiel 16:36, Jeremiah 7:31, Ezekiel 20:26, Jeremiah 32:35
38Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:13, 2 Kings 21:7, Ezekiel 20:24, Ezekiel 7:20
39And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house.
2 Kings 21:4, 2 Kings 21:4, Jeremiah 23:11, Ezekiel 44:7, Jeremiah 23:11
40They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women's ornaments.
2 Kings 9:30, Jeremiah 4:30, 2 Kings 9:30, Jeremiah 4:30, Ezekiel 16:13
41Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.
Esther 1:6, Esther 1:6, Amos 6:4, Jeremiah 44:17, Ezekiel 44:16
42And there was in her the voice of a multitude rejoicing: and to some that were brought of the multitude of men, and that came from the desert, they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Ezekiel 16:11, Ezekiel 16:12, Ezekiel 16:11, Ezekiel 16:12, Exodus 32:18
43And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.
Jeremiah 13:23, Daniel 9:16, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezra 9:7, Psalms 106:6
44And they went in to her, as to a harlot: so went they in unto Oolla, and Ooliba, wicked women.
Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:9, Ezekiel 23:13, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:9
45They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
Leviticus 20:10, Ezekiel 23:36, Ezekiel 23:39, Hosea 6:5, Ezekiel 16:38
46For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them, and deliver them over to tumult and rapine:
Ezekiel 16:40, Ezekiel 16:40, Jeremiah 15:4, Jeremiah 24:9, Jeremiah 15:4
47And let the people stone them with stone, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.
Ezekiel 16:40, Ezekiel 16:41, Jeremiah 39:8, Ezekiel 24:21, Ezekiel 16:40
48And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.
2 Peter 2:6, Ezekiel 23:27, Ezekiel 16:41, Ezekiel 6:6, 2 Peter 2:6
49And they shall render your wickedness upon you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols: and you shall know that I am the Lord God.
Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 9:10, Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 9:10, Isaiah 59:18

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