Ezekiel 23:16

As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

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In The King James Version

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

In Context

15dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

17The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:2that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

2 Samuel 11:2It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

Job 31:1"I made a covenant with my eyes,how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Proverbs 6:25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart,neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Isaiah 57:9You went to the king with oil, and increased your perfumes, and sent your ambassadors far off, and debased 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 →

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