Ezekiel 23:15

Girded with waistcloths upon their loins With overhanging high turbans upon their heads, In appearance, knights all of them,-The likeness of the sons of Babylon of Chaldea, the land of their birth.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

In Context

14Yet did she add, unto her unchaste doings, when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, likenesses of Chaldeans, Portrayed with vermilion:

16Then lusted she after them, as soon as her eyes beheld them,— And she sent messengers unto them to Chaldea.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 18:4And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe which was upon him, and gave it to David,—and his equipments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

Isaiah 22:21And will clothe him with thy tunic And with thy girdle, will I gird him, And thine authority, will I deliver into his hand,—So shall he become a father To the inhabitant of Jerusalem and To the house of Judah.

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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