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Oholah
and Oholibah's Sin and Its Consequences |
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Ezekiel 23:1
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The word of the LORD came to me again, saying, |
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Ezekiel 23:2
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"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters
of one mother; |
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Ezekiel 23:3
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and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played
the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin
bosom was handled. |
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Ezekiel 23:4
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"Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah
her sister. And they became Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for
their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah. |
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Ezekiel 23:5
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"Oholah played the harlot while she was Mine;
and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors, |
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Ezekiel 23:6
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who were clothed in purple, governors and officials,
all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. |
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Ezekiel 23:7
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"She bestowed her harlotries on them, all of
whom were the choicest men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with
all their idols she defiled herself. |
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Ezekiel 23:8
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"She did not forsake her harlotries from the
time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin
bosom and poured out their lust on her. |
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Ezekiel 23:9
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"Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her
lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. |
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Ezekiel 23:10
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"They uncovered her nakedness; they took her
sons and her daughters, but they slew her with the sword. Thus she became a byword
among women, and they executed judgments on her. |
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Ezekiel 23:11
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"Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was
more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries
of her sister. |
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Ezekiel 23:12
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"She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and
officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all
of them desirable young men. |
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Ezekiel 23:13
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"I saw that she had defiled herself; they both
took the same way. |
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Ezekiel 23:14
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"So she increased her harlotries. And she saw
men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, |
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Ezekiel 23:15
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girded with belts on their loins, with flowing
turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians
in Chaldea, the land of their birth. |
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Ezekiel 23:16
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"When she saw them she lusted after them and
sent messengers to them in Chaldea. |
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Ezekiel 23:17
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"The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love
and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she
became disgusted with them. |
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Ezekiel 23:18
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"She uncovered her harlotries and uncovered
her nakedness; then I became disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with
her sister. |
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Ezekiel 23:19
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"Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering
the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. |
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Ezekiel 23:20
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"She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh
is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses. |
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Ezekiel 23:21
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"Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth,
when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth. |
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Ezekiel 23:22
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"Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD,
'Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated, and
I will bring them against you from every side: |
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Ezekiel 23:23
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the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod
and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors
and officials all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. |
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Ezekiel 23:24
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'They will come against you with weapons, chariots
and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you
on every side with buckler and shield and helmet; and I will commit the judgment
to them, and they will judge you according to their customs. |
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Ezekiel 23:25
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'I will set My jealousy against you, that they
may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your
survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters;
and your survivors will be consumed by the fire. |
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Ezekiel 23:26
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'They will also strip you of your clothes and
take away your beautiful jewels. |
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Ezekiel 23:27
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'Thus I will make your lewdness and your harlotry
brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up
your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.' |
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Ezekiel 23:28
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"For thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I will
give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom
you were alienated. |
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Ezekiel 23:29
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They will deal with you in hatred, take all
your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries
will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries. |
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Ezekiel 23:30
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These things will be done to you because you
have played the harlot with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with
their idols. |
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Ezekiel 23:31
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'You have walked in the way of your sister;
therefore I will give her cup into your hand.' |
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Ezekiel 23:32
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"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'You will drink your
sister's cup, Which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and held in derision;
It contains much. |
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Ezekiel 23:33
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'You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria. |
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Ezekiel 23:34
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'You will drink it and drain it. Then you will
gnaw its fragments And tear your breasts; for I have spoken,' declares the Lord
GOD. |
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Ezekiel 23:35
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"Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because
you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, bear now the punishment of
your lewdness and your harlotries.'" |
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Ezekiel 23:36
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Moreover, the LORD said to me, "Son of man,
will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. |
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Ezekiel 23:37
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"For they have committed adultery, and blood
is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even
caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food. |
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Ezekiel 23:38
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"Again, they have done this to Me: they have
defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths. |
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Ezekiel 23:39
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"For when they had slaughtered their children
for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and
lo, thus they did within My house. |
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Ezekiel 23:40
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"Furthermore, they have even sent for men who
come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came--for whom you
bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments; |
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Ezekiel 23:41
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and you sat on a splendid couch with a table
arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil. |
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Ezekiel 23:42
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"The sound of a carefree multitude was with
her; and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort.
And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their
heads. |
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Ezekiel 23:43
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"Then I said concerning her who was worn out
by adulteries, 'Will they now commit adultery with her when she is thus?' |
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Ezekiel 23:44
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"But they went in to her as they would go in
to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. |
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Ezekiel 23:45
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"But they, righteous 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 on their hands. |
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Ezekiel 23:46
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"For thus says the Lord GOD, 'Bring up a company
against them and give them over to terror and plunder. |
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Ezekiel 23:47
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'The company will stone them with stones and
cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters
and burn their houses with fire. |
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Ezekiel 23:48
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'Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land,
that all women may be admonished and not commit lewdness as you have done. |
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Ezekiel 23:49
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'Your lewdness will be requited upon you, and
you will bear the penalty of worshiping your idols; thus you will know that I
am the Lord GOD.'" |
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