Ezekiel 23:20

And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

19But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.

21And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:3If the flow goes on or if the part is stopped up, to keep back the flow, he is still unclean.

Ezekiel 16:20And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

Ezekiel 17:15But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:12-22

The Sins of Samaria and Jerusalem. ( b. c. 591.) 11 And 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 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, 14 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the… Read the whole commentary →

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