Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say: ‘Because you have forgotten me and rejected me [IDM], you must be punished for your immoral behavior and for being like a prostitute.’”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

In Context

34You will drink all the liquid that is in that cup; then you will break that cup into pieces and use those pieces to gash/cut your breasts because you will be very sad.’ That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.

36Yahweh said to me, “You human, you must [RHQ] judge the people of those two cities represented by Oholah and Oholibah. You must remind them of their detestable behavior:

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Cross References

Leviticus 24:15Tell the Israelis, ‘If anyone curses me, he must ◄endure the consequences/be punished►.

Numbers 14:34You will suffer for your sins for 40 years. That will be one year for each of the 40 days that the twelve men explored Canaan land. And I will be like an enemy to you.’

1 Kings 14:9But you have done more evil things/deeds than all those who ruled before you. You have rejected me, and you have caused me to become very angry by making metal images of other gods so that you and others could worship them.

Proverbs 30:9because if I become rich, I might say that I do not [RHQ] know you and that I do not need you; and if I become poor, I might dishonor you by stealing things.

Jeremiah 2:7And when I brought you into a very fertile land, in order that you could enjoy all the fruit and other good things that you would harvest, you caused the land that I promised to give to you to be unfit for me and to become disgusting/detestable to me.

Jeremiah 3:21People will hear a noise on the barren hilltops. It will be the noise made by people weeping and pleading for God to be merciful to them. They will be admitting/saying that they have forgotten Yahweh their God, and that they turned away from behaving as God wanted them to.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:23-36

The Punishment of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 591.) 22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; 23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses. 24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, waggons, and wheels, and… Read the whole commentary →

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