Ezekiel 23:16

She doted upon them with the lust of her eyes, and she sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

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,

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.

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Cross References

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

2 Samuel 11:2In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful.

Job 31:1I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

Proverbs 6:25Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:

Isaiah 57:9And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes. Thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and wast debased even to hell.

Ezekiel 16:29Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast then satisfied.

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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