Ezekiel 23:19

Then 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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Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

In Context

18When 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

20So she lusted for her lovers, 1 whose private parts were like those of donkeys, and whose reproductive emissions were like those of horses. 1

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Cross References

Ezekiel 16:22In all your abominations and your acts of prostitution you have not thought about the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare as you thrashed about in your blood.

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

Ezekiel 20:7I said to them, “Let each man throw away the detestable things from before his eyes and the idols of Egypt. Do not make yourselves unclean; I am Yahweh your God.”

Ezekiel 23:8For she had not left her prostitute behavior behind in Egypt, when they had slept with her when she had been a young girl, when they first began to fondle her virgin breasts, when they first began to pour out their promiscuous behavior on her.

Ezekiel 23:21This is how you committed shameful acts of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples and squeezed your young breasts. 1

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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