Ezekiel 23:18

When she displayed her acts of prostitution and uncovered her nakedness, 1 I turned away from her, just as I had turned away in disgust from her sister. 1

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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

17Then the Babylonians came to her and to her bed of lust, and they made her unclean with their promiscuousness. By what she had done she was made unclean, so she turned herself away from them in disgust. 1

19Then she increased her prostitution as she remembered the days of her youth, 1 when she was a prostitute in the land of Egypt. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:19Yahweh saw this and he rejected them, 1 because his sons and his daughters provoked him so. 1

Psalms 106:40So Yahweh was angry with his people, 1 and he despised his own people. 1

Jeremiah 6:8Accept discipline, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you 1 and make you into a ruin, an uninhabited land.'” 1

Jeremiah 12:8My inheritance has become to me like a lion in a thicket; 1 she sets herself against me with her own voice, so I hate her. 1

Lamentations 2:7The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. 1 He has given over the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. 1 They have raised a shout in the house of Yahweh, as on the day of an appointed feast. 1

Ezekiel 21:24Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, 1 making your transgressions to be revealed, so that in all your actions your sins will be seen— 1 because you have done this you will be taken in 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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