Ezekiel 23:44

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They went to her as men go to a prostitute. In the same way, they went to Oholah and Oholibah, the immoral women.

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  • Ezek 23:3 : 3 They committed adultery in Egypt; in their youth, they acted unfaithfully. There, their breasts were fondled, and their virginity was violated.
  • Ezek 23:9-9 : 9 Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians whom she lusted after. 10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and they carried out judgment against her. 11 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was even more corrupt in her lust, and her adulteries exceeded those of her sister. 12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and officials nearby—elegantly clothed, skilled horsemen, and all young and desirable men. 13 I saw that she too was defiled; both had followed the same corrupt path.

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  • Ezek 23:43
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    43Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue their acts of fornication with her.’

  • Ezek 23:7-14
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    80%

    7She gave herself to them, all the elite of the Assyrians, and defiled herself with all the idols she lusted after.

    8She did not abandon the adulteries she began in Egypt, where men slept with her in her youth, fondling her virgin breasts and pouring out their lust upon her.

    9Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians whom she lusted after.

    10They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and they carried out judgment against her.

    11Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was even more corrupt in her lust, and her adulteries exceeded those of her sister.

    12She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and officials nearby—elegantly clothed, skilled horsemen, and all young and desirable men.

    13I saw that she too was defiled; both had followed the same corrupt path.

    14But she went even further with her adulteries. She saw men carved on the walls, images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion.

  • Ezek 23:3-5
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    3They committed adultery in Egypt; in their youth, they acted unfaithfully. There, their breasts were fondled, and their virginity was violated.

    4Their names were Oholah, the elder, and Oholibah, her sister. They became mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Their names represent Samaria as Oholah, and Jerusalem as Oholibah.

    5Oholah was unfaithful to me and lusted after her lovers—the Assyrians, who were near.

  • Ezek 23:45
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    45But righteous men will judge them for committing adultery and shedding blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

  • Ezek 23:16-19
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    78%

    16As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

    17Then the Babylonians came to her, to her bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. After she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

    18When she openly displayed her prostitution and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

    19Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.

  • Ezek 23:35-37
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    77%

    35Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because you have forgotten me and thrust me behind your back, you must also bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.'

    36The LORD said to me: 'Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their abominations.'

    37For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, passing them through the fire as food for their idols.

  • Ezek 23:21-22
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    21So you revisited the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your breasts and caressed your young bosom.

    22Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I am about to stir up your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side—

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

  • Hos 2:5
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    5Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

  • Jer 3:8-9
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    8I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and prostituted herself.

    9Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

  • Ezek 16:35-36
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    35Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

    36This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children you gave to them,

  • Jer 3:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, should he take her back again? Wouldn't such a land become completely defiled? You have lived as a prostitute with many lovers—yet you want to return to me? declares the LORD.

    2Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

  • Ezek 16:32-33
    2 verses
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    32You adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

    33All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your acts of prostitution.

  • Jer 11:15
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    15What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has done so many wicked schemes? Can consecrated meat remove your evil? Then you would exult!

  • Ezek 16:28-30
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    28You prostituted yourself with the Assyrians because you were never satisfied. Even after prostituting yourself with them, you were not satisfied.

    29You also multiplied your promiscuity in the land of Canaan and even with the Chaldeans, yet even with this, you were not satisfied.

    30‘How weak is your heart,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘that you do all these things, the actions of a brazen prostitute!

  • Ezek 16:41
    72%

    41They will burn down your houses and execute judgment on you in the sight of many women. I will bring an end to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay fees to anyone.

  • Ezek 22:10-11
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    10In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

    11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • Hos 4:15
    71%

    15Though you, Israel, play the harlot, let not Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth Aven, and do not swear, 'As surely as the LORD lives!'

  • Hos 4:13
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    13They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

  • Ezek 16:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16You took your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them, you committed prostitution. Such things should not have happened, nor should they occur.

    17You also took the fine jewelry made of gold and silver that I had given you, and you made male idols for yourself and engaged in prostitution with them.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

  • Ezek 16:47
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    47You not only followed their ways and acted according to their detestable practices but in a very short time, you became more depraved than they were in all your ways.

  • Ezek 16:22
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    22In all your detestable practices and prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

  • Jer 44:9
    70%

    9Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, the wickedness of the kings of Judah, the wickedness of their wives, your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Ezek 36:17
    70%

    17'Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions. Their way was as unclean as a woman's impurity in my sight.

  • Ezek 23:39
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    39When they slaughtered their children as sacrifices to their idols, they came to my sanctuary on the same day to desecrate it. See, this is what they have done in my house.

  • Ezek 16:26
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    26You engaged in prostitution with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and multiplied your acts of prostitution to anger me.