1The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

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2Sonne of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.

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Ezekiel 16:44, Ezekiel 16:46, Jeremiah 3:7, Jeremiah 3:10, Ezekiel 16:44

3And they committed fornication in Egypt, they committed fornication in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teates of their virginitie.

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Leviticus 17:7, Leviticus 17:7, Joshua 24:14, Ezekiel 16:22, Joshua 24:14

4And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sonnes and daughters: thus were their names. Samaria is Aholah, and Ierusalem Aholibah.

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Ezekiel 16:8, Ezekiel 16:8, 1 Kings 12:26, 1 Kings 12:33, Psalms 76:2

5And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine, and she was set on fire with her louers, to wit, with the Assyrians her neighbours,

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2 Kings 15:19, 2 Kings 17:3, Hosea 5:13, 2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 15:19

6Which were clothed with blewe silke, both captaines and princes: they were all pleasant yong men, and horsemen riding vpon horses.

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Ezekiel 23:23, Ezekiel 23:23

7Thus she committed her whoredome with them, euen with all them that were the chosen men of Asshur, and with all on whome she doted, and defiled her selfe with all their idoles.

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Hosea 6:10, Hosea 5:3, Hosea 6:10, Hosea 5:3, Ezekiel 20:7

8Neither left she her fornications, learned of the Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginitie, and powred their whoredome vpon her.

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Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:3, Exodus 32:4, Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:3

9Wherefore I deliuered her into the hands of her louers, euen into the hands of the Assyrians, vpon whome she doted.

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Hosea 11:5, 2 Kings 17:23, 2 Kings 15:29, Hosea 11:5, 2 Kings 17:23

10These discouered her shame: they tooke away her sonnes and her daughters, and slewe her with the sworde, and she had an euill name among women: for they had executed iudgement vpon her.

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Hosea 2:10, Ezekiel 23:29, Hosea 2:10, Ezekiel 23:29, Jeremiah 22:8

11And when her sister Aholibah sawe this, she marred her selfe with inordinate loue, more then she, and with her fornications more then her sister with her fornications.

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Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Ezekiel 16:47

12She doted vpon the Assyrians her neighbours, both captaines and princes clothed with diuers sutes, horsemen ryding vpon horses: they were all pleasant yong men.

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2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:15, 2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:15, Ezekiel 23:5

13Then I sawe that she was defiled, and that they were both after one sort,

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Ezekiel 23:31, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 12:2, 2 Kings 17:18, 2 Kings 17:19

14And that she encreased her fornications: for when she sawe men painted vpon the wall, the images of the Caldeans painted with vermelon,

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Ezekiel 8:10, Ezekiel 8:10, Jeremiah 22:14, Jeremiah 22:14, Jeremiah 50:2

15And girded with girdles vpon their loynes, and with dyed attyre vpon their heads (looking all like princes after the maner of the Babylonians in Caldea, the land of their natiuitie)

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1 Samuel 18:4, 2 Samuel 14:25, Judges 8:18, Isaiah 22:21, 1 Samuel 18:4

16Assoone, I say, as she sawe them, she doted vpon them, and sent messengers vnto them into Caldea.

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Ezekiel 16:29, Ezekiel 16:29, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 5:28, Job 31:1

17Nowe when the Babylonians came to her into the bed of loue, they defiled her with their fornication, and she was polluted with them, and her lust departed from them.

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Ezekiel 23:22, Ezekiel 23:28, Ezekiel 23:22, Ezekiel 23:28, 2 Samuel 13:15

18So she discouered her fornication, and disclosed her shame: then mine heart forsooke her, like as mine heart had forsaken her sister.

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Psalms 78:59, Psalms 106:40, Jeremiah 12:8, Psalms 78:59, Psalms 106:40

19Yet she encreased her whoredome more, and called to remembrance ye dayes of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

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Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:21, Ezekiel 20:7, Amos 4:4

20For she doted vpon their seruants whose members are as the members of asses, and whose yssue is like the yssue of horses.

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Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 16:26, Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 16:26, Ezekiel 16:20

21Thou calledst to remembrance the wickednes of thy youth, when thy teates were bruised by ye Egyptians: therefore ye paps of thy youth are thus.

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22Therefore, O Aholibah, thus sayeth the Lord God, Beholde, I will raise vp thy louers against thee, from whome thine heart is departed, and I will bring them against thee on euery side,

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Ezekiel 16:37, Ezekiel 16:37, Revelation 17:16, Revelation 17:16, Isaiah 39:3

23To wit, the Babylonians, and all the Caldeans, Peked, and Shoah, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: they were all pleasant yong men, captaines and princes: all they were valiant and renoumed, riding vpon horses.

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Jeremiah 50:21, Jeremiah 50:21, 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 20:14, 2 Kings 20:17

24Euen these shall come against thee with charets, waggons, and wheeles, and with a multitude of people, which shall set against thee, buckler and shield, and helmet round about: and I will leaue the punishment vnto them, and they shall iudge thee according to their iudgements.

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Ezekiel 16:38, Ezekiel 23:45, Nahum 2:3, Nahum 2:4, 2 Samuel 24:14

25And I wil lay mine indignation vpon thee, and they shall deale cruelly with thee: they shall cut off thy nose and thine eares, and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall cary away thy sonnes and thy daughters, and thy residue shall be deuoured by the fire.

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Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 16:38, Ezekiel 16:42, Ezekiel 15:6

26They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fayre iewels.

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Ezekiel 16:39, Ezekiel 16:39, Jeremiah 13:22, Jeremiah 13:22, Ezekiel 23:29

27Thus wil I make thy wickednes to cease from thee and thy fornication out of the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift vp thine eyes vnto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

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Ezekiel 16:41, Ezekiel 16:41, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:3

28For thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I wil deliuer thee into the hand of them, whome thou hatest: euen into the hands of them from whome thine heart is departed.

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Ezekiel 23:17, Jeremiah 34:20, Ezekiel 16:37, Ezekiel 23:22, Ezekiel 23:17

29And they shall handle thee despitefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leaue thee naked and bare, and the shame of thy fornications shalbe discouered, both thy wickednes, and thy whoredome.

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Ezekiel 16:39, Ezekiel 23:45, Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 23:25, Ezekiel 23:26

30I wil doe these things vnto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idoles.

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Ezekiel 6:9, Ezekiel 6:9, Jeremiah 22:8, Jeremiah 22:9, Psalms 106:35

31Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister: therefore wil I giue her cup into thine hand.

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2 Kings 21:13, Jeremiah 7:14, Jeremiah 7:15, 2 Kings 21:13, Jeremiah 7:14

32Thus saith ye Lord God, Thou shalt drinke of thy sisters cup, deepe and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorne and had in derision, because it containeth much.

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Psalms 60:3, Isaiah 51:17, Psalms 60:3, Isaiah 51:17, Ezekiel 22:4

33Thou shalt be filled with drunkennes and sorow, euen with the cup of destruction, and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

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Jeremiah 25:27, Isaiah 51:17, Jeremiah 25:27, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22

34Thou shalt euen drinke it, and wring it out to the dregges, and thou shalt breake the sheards thereof, and teare thine owne breasts: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

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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 cast me behinde thy backe, therefore thou shalt also beare thy wickednes and thy whoredome.

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1 Kings 14:9, 1 Kings 14:9, Ezekiel 22:12, Jeremiah 3:21, Isaiah 17:10

36The Lord sayd moreouer vnto me, Sonne of man, wilt thou iudge Aholah and Aholibah? and wilt thou declare to them their abominations?

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Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 20:4, Ezekiel 16:2, Isaiah 58:1

37For they haue played the whores, and blood is in their hands, and with their idoles haue they committed adulterie, and haue also caused their sonnes, whome they bare vnto me, to passe by the fire to be their meate.

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Ezekiel 16:36, Ezekiel 16:36, Jeremiah 7:31, Ezekiel 20:26, Jeremiah 32:35

38Moreouer, thus haue they done vnto me: they haue defiled my Sanctuarie in the same day, and haue prophaned my Sabbaths.

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Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:13, 2 Kings 21:7, Ezekiel 20:24, Ezekiel 7:20

39For when they had slaine their children to their idoles, they came the same day into my Sanctuarie to defile it: and loe, thus haue they done in the middes of mine house.

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2 Kings 21:4, 2 Kings 21:4, Jeremiah 23:11, Ezekiel 44:7, Jeremiah 23:11

40And howe much more is it that they sent for men to come from farre vnto whom a messenger was sent, and loe, they came? for whome thou diddest wash thy selfe, and paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst thee with ornaments,

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2 Kings 9:30, Jeremiah 4:30, 2 Kings 9:30, Jeremiah 4:30, Ezekiel 16:13

41And satest vpon a costly bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oyle.

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Esther 1:6, Esther 1:6, Amos 6:4, Jeremiah 44:17, Ezekiel 44:16

42And a voyce of a multitude being at ease, was with her: and with the men to make the company great were brought men of Saba from the wildernes, which put bracelets vpon their hands, and beautifull crownes vpon their heads.

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Ezekiel 16:11, Ezekiel 16:12, Ezekiel 16:11, Ezekiel 16:12, Exodus 32:18

43Then I sayd vnto her, that was olde in adulteries, Now shall she and her fornications come to an end.

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Jeremiah 13:23, Daniel 9:16, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezra 9:7, Psalms 106:6

44And they went in vnto her as they goe to a common harlot: so went they to Aholah and Aholibah the wicked women.

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Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:9, Ezekiel 23:13, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:9

45And ye righteous men they shall iudge them, after the maner of harlots, and after the maner of murtherers: for they are harlots, and blood is in their hands.

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Leviticus 20:10, Ezekiel 23:36, Ezekiel 23:39, Hosea 6:5, Ezekiel 16:38

46Wherefore thus sayth the Lord God, I will bring a multitude vpon them, and will giue them vnto the tumult, and to the spoyle,

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Ezekiel 16:40, Ezekiel 16:40, Jeremiah 15:4, Jeremiah 24:9, Jeremiah 15:4

47And the multitude shall stone them with stones, and cut them with their swordes: they shall slay their sonnes, and their daughters, and burne vp their houses with fire.

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Ezekiel 16:40, Ezekiel 16:41, Jeremiah 39:8, Ezekiel 24:21, Ezekiel 16:40

48Thus will I cause wickednesse to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to doe after your wickednesse.

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2 Peter 2:6, Ezekiel 23:27, Ezekiel 16:41, Ezekiel 6:6, 2 Peter 2:6

49And they shall laye your wickednesse vpon you, and ye shall beare the sinnes of your idoles, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord God.

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Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 9:10, Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 9:10, Isaiah 59:18