Ezekiel 23:6

Clothed in blue Governors and deputies, Attractive young men all of them,-Horsemen riding on horses.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

In Context

5Then became Oholah unchaste after she had become mine- And lusted after her lovers, For Assyrians, so warlike,

7So she bestowed her unchastities upon them, The choicest men of Assyria all of them,- And, with whomsoever she lusted after-with all their manufactured gods, she defiled herself.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 23:23The sons of Babylon and all Chaldeans Pekod and Shoa and Koa, All the sons of Assyria with them,— Attractive young men Governors and deputies, all of them. Knights and men of renown, Riders on horses all of them;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:2-11

The Sins of Samaria and Jerusalem. ( b. c. 591.) 1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. 4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem… Read the whole commentary →

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