Ezekiel 23:7

And she distributed her fornications to those chosen men, all of them sons of the Assyrians. And she defiled herself with the uncleanness of all those whom she madly desired.

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In The King James Version

Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

In Context

6who were clothed with hyacinth: rulers and magistrates, passionate youths and all of the horsemen, mounted on horses.

8Moreover, she also did not abandon her fornications, which she had done in Egypt. For they also slept with her in her youth, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and they poured out their fornication upon her.

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Cross References

Psalms 106:39And they became few, and they were afflicted by the tribulation of evils and of sorrow.

Ezekiel 20:7And I said to them: ‘Let each one cast away the offenses of his eyes, and do not choose to defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’

Ezekiel 23:30They have done these things to you, because you have fornicated after the Gentiles, among whom you were defiled by their idols.

Hosea 6:10I have seen horrible things in the house of Israel; the fornications of Ephraim are there. Israel has been contaminated.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:2-11

The Sins of Samaria and Jerusalem. ( b. c. 591.) 1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. 4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem… Read the whole commentary →

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