Ezekiel 23

1Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

2“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.Cross-references: Jer 3:7 · Ezek 16:44

3They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.Cross-references: Lev 17:7 · Deut 29:16 · Josh 24:14 · Ezek 16:22 · Ezek 20:8 · Ezek 23:8 · +3 more

4Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · 1Ki 8:29 · 1Ki 12:20 · 1Ki 12:26 · Ps 45:11 · Ps 76:2 · +7 more

5“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,Cross-references: 1Ki 14:9 · 1Ki 14:16 · 1Ki 15:26 · 1Ki 15:30 · 1Ki 16:31 · 1Ki 21:26 · +16 more

6who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.Cross-references: Ezek 23:23

7She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whomever she lusted after.Cross-references: Gen 10:22 · Ps 106:39 · Ezek 16:15 · Ezek 20:7 · Ezek 22:3 · Ezek 23:30 · +2 more

8She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples and they poured out their prostitution on her.Cross-references: Ex 32:4 · 1Ki 12:28 · 2Ki 10:29 · 2Ki 17:16 · Ezek 23:3 · Ezek 23:19 · +1 more

9“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 17:3 · 2Ki 17:23 · 2Ki 18:9 · 1Chr 5:26 · Hos 11:5 · +2 more

10These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.Cross-references: Jer 22:8 · Ezek 16:37 · Ezek 23:29 · Ezek 23:48 · Hos 2:3 · Hos 2:10

11“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.Cross-references: Jer 3:8 · Ezek 16:47 · Ezek 23:4

12She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.Cross-references: 2Ki 16:7 · 2Chr 28:16 · Ezek 16:28 · Ezek 23:5 · Ezek 23:23

13I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:18 · Ezek 23:31 · Hos 12:1

14“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,Cross-references: Isa 46:1 · Jer 22:14 · Jer 50:2 · Ezek 8:10 · Ezek 16:29

15dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.Cross-references: Judg 8:18 · 1Sam 18:4 · 2Sam 14:25 · Isa 22:21

16As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Gen 6:2 · Gen 39:7 · 2Sam 11:2 · 2Ki 24:1 · Job 31:1 · +8 more

17The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.Cross-references: Gen 10:10 · Gen 11:9 · 2Sam 13:15 · Ezek 16:37 · Ezek 23:22 · Ezek 23:28

18So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.Cross-references: Deut 32:19 · Ps 78:59 · Ps 106:40 · Isa 3:9 · Jer 6:8 · Jer 8:12 · +10 more

19Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.Cross-references: Ezek 16:22 · Ezek 16:25 · Ezek 16:29 · Ezek 16:51 · Ezek 20:7 · Ezek 23:3 · +4 more

20She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.Cross-references: Jer 5:8 · Ezek 16:20 · Ezek 16:26 · Ezek 17:15

21Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.

22“Therefore, Oholibah, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:Cross-references: Isa 10:5 · Isa 39:3 · Jer 6:22 · Jer 12:9 · Ezek 16:37 · Ezek 23:9 · +3 more

23the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.Cross-references: Gen 2:14 · Gen 25:18 · 2Ki 20:14 · 2Ki 24:2 · 2Ki 25:1 · Ezra 6:22 · +7 more

24They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you with buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their judgments.Cross-references: 2Sam 24:14 · Jer 39:5 · Jer 47:3 · Ezek 16:38 · Ezek 21:23 · Ezek 23:45 · +3 more

25I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by the fire.Cross-references: Ex 34:14 · Deut 29:20 · Deut 32:21 · Prov 6:34 · Song 8:6 · Ezek 5:13 · +9 more

26They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.Cross-references: Isa 3:17 · Jer 13:22 · Ezek 16:16 · Ezek 16:37 · Ezek 16:39 · Ezek 23:29 · +5 more

27Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.’Cross-references: Isa 27:9 · Ezek 16:41 · Ezek 22:15 · Ezek 23:3 · Ezek 23:19 · Mic 5:10 · +1 more

28“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated.Cross-references: Jer 21:7 · Jer 24:8 · Jer 34:20 · Ezek 16:37 · Ezek 23:17 · Ezek 23:22

29They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.Cross-references: Deut 28:47 · 2Sam 13:15 · Ezek 16:36 · Ezek 16:39 · Ezek 23:18 · Ezek 23:25 · +1 more

30These things will be done to you because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.Cross-references: Ps 106:35 · Jer 2:18 · Jer 16:11 · Jer 22:8 · Ezek 6:9 · Ezek 23:7 · +1 more

31You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’Cross-references: 2Ki 21:13 · Jer 3:8 · Jer 7:14 · Jer 25:15 · Ezek 16:47 · Ezek 23:13 · +1 more

32“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.Cross-references: Deut 28:37 · 1Ki 9:7 · Ps 60:3 · Ps 79:3 · Isa 51:17 · Jer 25:9 · +12 more

33You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.Cross-references: Isa 51:17 · Isa 51:22 · Jer 25:15 · Jer 25:27 · Hab 2:16

34You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Ps 75:8 · Isa 51:17 · Ezek 23:3 · Ezek 23:8 · Rev 18:7

35“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’”Cross-references: Lev 24:15 · Num 14:34 · Num 18:22 · 1Ki 14:9 · Neh 9:26 · Isa 17:10 · +12 more

36Yahweh said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.Cross-references: Isa 58:1 · Jer 1:10 · Jer 11:14 · Jer 14:11 · Ezek 16:2 · Ezek 20:4 · +7 more

37For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.Cross-references: Lev 18:21 · Lev 20:2 · Deut 12:31 · 2Ki 17:17 · 2Ki 21:6 · 2Ki 24:4 · +23 more

38Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:4 · 2Ki 21:7 · 2Ki 23:11 · Neh 13:17 · Jer 17:27 · Ezek 5:11 · +5 more

39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:4 · 2Chr 33:4 · Isa 3:9 · Jer 7:8 · Jer 11:15 · Jer 23:11 · +4 more

40“Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,Cross-references: Ruth 3:3 · 2Ki 9:30 · 2Ki 20:13 · Esth 2:12 · Prov 7:10 · Isa 3:18 · +4 more

41and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.Cross-references: Esth 1:6 · Prov 7:16 · Isa 57:7 · Isa 65:11 · Jer 44:17 · Ezek 16:18 · +5 more

42“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.Cross-references: Gen 24:30 · Ex 32:6 · Ex 32:18 · Job 1:15 · Ezek 16:11 · Hos 13:6 · +3 more

43Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’Cross-references: Ezra 9:7 · Ps 106:6 · Jer 13:23 · Ezek 23:3 · Dan 9:16

44They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.Cross-references: Ezek 23:3 · Ezek 23:9

45Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.Cross-references: Lev 20:10 · Lev 21:9 · Deut 22:21 · Jer 5:14 · Ezek 16:38 · Ezek 23:36 · +3 more

46“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.Cross-references: Jer 15:4 · Jer 24:9 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 34:17 · Ezek 16:40 · Ezek 23:22

47The company will stone them with stones and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.Cross-references: Deut 13:16 · 2Chr 36:17 · Jer 33:4 · Jer 39:8 · Jer 52:13 · Ezek 9:6 · +5 more

48“‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you.Cross-references: Deut 13:11 · Isa 26:9 · Ezek 5:15 · Ezek 6:6 · Ezek 16:41 · Ezek 22:15 · +6 more

49They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Ps 9:16 · Isa 59:18 · Ezek 6:7 · Ezek 7:4 · Ezek 7:9 · Ezek 9:10 · +8 more