Ezekiel 23:16
As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
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Genesis 6:2God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
2 Samuel 11:2At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Proverbs 6:25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
Isaiah 57:9You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
Ezekiel 16:29You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.
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 →