She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 23:12 in context
Ezekiel 23:9–15
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“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted.
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These 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.
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“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.
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She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
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I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.
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“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,
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dressed 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.
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