Ezekiel 23:16

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

In Context

15girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them captains in appearance, [after] the likeness of the children of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their nativity.

17And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.

2 Samuel 11:2And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;

Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

Proverbs 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;

Isaiah 57:9And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst multiply thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers afar off, and didst debase thyself unto Sheol.

Ezekiel 16:29And thou didst multiply thy whoredom with the land of merchants, Chaldea, and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

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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