Ezekiel 23:44
42 accompanied by the sound of a carefree crowd. Drunkards were brought in from the desert along with men from the rabble, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your head.
43 Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’
And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
45 But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
46 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
- KJV
- Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
- WEB
- They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
- ASV
- And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.
- DARBY
- And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a whorish woman: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah the lewd women.
- BLB
- And they have come in to her as the coming in to a woman, a prostitute. Thus they went [in] to Oholah and to Oholibah, women of wickedness!
- ÅB
- De gikk inn til henne som folk går inn til en skjøge; slik gikk de inn til Ohola og Oholiba, de utuktige kvinner.
- OTB
- Og de gikk inn til henne som menn går inn til en prostituert. Så gikk de inn til Ohola og Oholiba, de skamløse kvinnene.
- B1930
- De gikk inn til henne som folk går inn til en skjøge; således gikk de inn til Ohola og Oholiba, de utuktige kvinner.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 23:3
and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
Read in contextEzekiel 23:9–13
Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
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