Ezekiel 23:12-21

¹²She too lusted after the Assyrians — governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.

¹³And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.

¹⁴But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

¹⁵wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

¹⁶At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

¹⁷Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. But after she had been defiled by them, she turned away in disgust.

¹⁸When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

¹⁹Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

²⁰and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

²¹So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

— Ezekiel 23:12-21

(BSB)

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Cross References for Ezekiel 23:12-21

• Ezekiel 16:29
• Ezekiel 8:10
• Psalm 78:59
• Psalm 106:40
• Jeremiah 12:8
• Jeremiah 8:12
• 2 Kings 16:7-15
• Ezekiel 23:3
• Jeremiah 6:8
• Ezekiel 17:15

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