Ezekiel 23:21

This 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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Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

In Context

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

22Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord Yahweh says this, 'Behold! I will turn your lovers against you. 1 Those from whom you turned away, I will bring them against you from every side: 1

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Cross References

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.

John 5:43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another should come in his own name, you would receive him.

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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