Ezekiel 23:3-8
1599 Geneva Bible
3 And they committed fornication in [a]Egypt, they committed fornication in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
4 And the names of [b]them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters: thus were their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
5 And Oholah played the harlot [c]when [d]she was mine, and she was set on fire with her lovers, to wit, with the Assyrians her neighbors,
6 Which were clothed with blue silk, both captains and princes they were all pleasant young men, and horsemen riding upon horses.
7 Thus she committed her whoredom with them, even with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted, and defiled herself with all their idols.
8 Neither left she her fornications, learned of the Egyptians: for in her youth they [e]lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
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- Ezekiel 23:3 They became idolaters after the manner of the Egyptians.
- Ezekiel 23:4 Oholah signifieth a mansion or dwelling in herself, meaning Samaria, which was the royal city of Israel and Oholibah signifieth my mansion in her, whereby is meant Jerusalem, where God’s Temple was.
- Ezekiel 23:5 Hebrew, under me.
- Ezekiel 23:5 When the Israelites were named the people of God, they became idolaters, and forsook God, and put their trust in the Assyrians.
- Ezekiel 23:8 The holy Ghost useth these terms which seem strange to chaste ears, to cause this wicked vice of idolatry so to be abhorred, that […] any should abide to hear the name thereof.
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