Ezekiel 23:6

Clothed [as they were] in blue, governors, and rulers, attractive youths all of them, horsemen riding upon horses.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

In Context

5And Aholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she longed for her lovers, for the Assyrians that were near [her],

7Thus she played the harlot with them, all of them the chosen ones of the sons of Asshur: and with all for whom she longed,—with all their idols did she defile herself.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 23:23The sons of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa and Koa, and all the sons of Asshur with them, attractive youths, governors and rulers all of them, commanders and chiefs, riding upon horses all of them.

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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