Verse 4
Ezekiel 23:4
World Messianic Bible
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Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/שְׁמוֹתָ֗/ן אָהֳלָ֤ה הַ/גְּדוֹלָה֙ וְ/אָהֳלִיבָ֣ה אֲחוֹתָ֔/הּ וַ/תִּֽהְיֶ֣ינָה לִ֔/י וַ/תֵּלַ֖דְנָה בָּנִ֣ים וּ/בָנ֑וֹת וּ/שְׁמוֹתָ֕/ן שֹׁמְר֣וֹן אָהֳלָ֔ה וִ/ירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם אָהֳלִיבָֽה
English Translation
And their names were Aholah the great and Aholibah her sister, and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters, and their names were Samaria Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah.
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Chapter 23 Context
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Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
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“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
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They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were f...
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Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and...
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“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neigh...
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who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding o...
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She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herse...
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She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They carre...
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“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she...
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These uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sw...
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“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitu...
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She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsem...
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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...
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dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like pr...
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As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
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The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She...
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So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her,...
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Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the...
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She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the i...
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Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egypti...
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“Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, f...
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the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of the...
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They will come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They w...
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I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your no...
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They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.
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Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you, and remove your prostitution from the land of Egyp...
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“For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them whom you hate, int...
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They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and b...
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These things will be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and beca...
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You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.’
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“Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
‘You will drink of your sister’s cup,
which is deep and large.
You will...
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You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
with the cup of astonishment and desolation,
with th...
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You will even drink it and drain it out.
You will gnaw the broken pieces of it,
and will tear your b...
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“Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back,...
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Yahweh said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them th...
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For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands. They have committed adultery with the...
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Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profane...
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For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary...
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“Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and...
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and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.
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“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunk...
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Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she w...
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They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the l...
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Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who s...
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“For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed...
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The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their s...
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“‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd l...
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They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will k...
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