Ezekiel 23:16
When she saw the paintings of them, she wanted to have sex with them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
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Genesis 6:2and the sons of God saw that these women were beautiful, and they took whichever ones they wanted.
2 Samuel 11:2Late one afternoon, David got up from taking a nap and was walking on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
Job 31:1“I vowed to myself never to look with desire at young women.
Proverbs 6:25Don't let your mind lust after her beauty, or let her hypnotize you with her fluttering eyelashes.
Isaiah 57:9You went to offer Molech olive oil, covering yourselves with many perfumes. You sent your messengers to distant places; you even went down into the world of the dead.
Ezekiel 16:29So you took your promiscuous behavior to Babylonia, the country of merchants, but even then you weren't 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 →