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Ezekiel 23:9
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7 Thus she committed her harlotry with them,
All of them choice men of Assyria;
And with all for whom she lusted,
With all their idols, she defiled herself.
8 She has never given up her harlotry brought afrom Egypt,
For in her youth they had lain with her,
Pressed her virgin bosom,
And poured out their immorality upon her. 
9 “Therefore I have delivered her
Into the hand of her lovers,
Into the hand of the aAssyrians,
For whom she lusted. 
10 They uncovered her nakedness,
Took away her sons and daughters,
And slew her with the sword;
She became a byword among women,
For they had executed judgment on her.

The Younger Sister, Jerusalem

11 “Now aalthough her sister Oholibah saw this, bshe became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry. 
12 “She lusted for the neighboring aAssyrians,
bCaptains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men. 
13 Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
14 But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of aChaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 
15 Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ezekiel 23:9

God, in righteous retribution, turned their objects of trust into the instruments of their punishment: Pul, Tiglath-pileser, Esar-haddon, and Shalmaneser (II Kings 15:19, II Kings 15:29; II Kings 17:3, II Kings 17:6, II Kings 17:24; Ezra 4:2, Ezra 4:10). "It was their sin to have sought after such lovers, and it was to be their punishment that these lovers should become their destroyers" [FAIRBAIRN].


 
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