Ezekiel 23:18

So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness; then My soul was alienated from her, like as My soul was alienated from her sister.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

In Context

17And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their lust; and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

19Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:19And the LORD saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.

Psalms 106:40Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against His people, and He abhorred His inheritance.

Jeremiah 6:8Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

Jeremiah 12:8My heritage is become unto Me as a lion in the forest; she hath uttered her voice against Me; therefore have I hated her.

Lamentations 2:7The Lord hath cast off His altar, He hath abhorred His sanctuary, He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

Ezekiel 21:24(21-29) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that your sins do appear in all your doings; because that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

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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