Ezekiel 23:4-13

⁴The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

⁵Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians— warriors

⁶clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.

⁷She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.

⁸She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.

⁹Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

¹⁰They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.

¹¹Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.

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.

— Ezekiel 23:4-13

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Cross References for Ezekiel 23:4-13

• Ezekiel 16:28
• 2 Kings 17:3
• Ezekiel 23:3
• Hosea 5:13
• Hosea 5:3
• Jeremiah 3:8-11
• 2 Kings 16:7
• Ezekiel 23:19
• Ezekiel 23:23
• 2 Kings 15:19

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