Ezekiel 23:14

Then she increased her prostitution even more. She saw men carved on walls, figures of Chaldeans painted in red,

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And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

In Context

13I saw that she had made herself unclean. It was the same for both sisters.

15wearing belts around their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads. All of them had the appearance of officers of chariot troops, the likeness of sons of Babylonia, whose native land is Chaldea.

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Cross References

Isaiah 46:1Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols 1 are carried by animals and beasts of burden. These idols that you carry are a heavy burden for weary animals. 1

Jeremiah 50:2“Report to the nations and cause them to listen. Lift up a signal and cause them to listen. Do not conceal it. 1 Say, 'Babylon is taken. Bel is made ashamed. Marduk is dismayed. Its idols are put to shame; its images are dismayed.' 1

Ezekiel 16:29You performed many more acts of prostitution in the land of the merchants of Chaldea, and even this did not satisfy you.

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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