Ezekiel 23:20

So 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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In The King James Version

For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

In Context

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

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

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Cross References

Leviticus 15:3His uncleanness is due to this infected fluid. Whether his body flows with fluid or is stopped up, it is unclean.

Ezekiel 16:20Then you took your sons and daughters whom you bore for me, and you sacrificed them to the images to be devoured as food. Are your acts of prostitution a small matter?

Ezekiel 17:15But the king of Jerusalem rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt to acquire horses and an army. Will he succeed? Will the one doing these things escape? If he breaks the covenant, will he escape?

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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