Ezekiel 23:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Aholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbors,

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  • 2 Kgs 15:19 : 19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.
  • 2 Kgs 16:7 : 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come up and save me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.
  • 2 Kgs 17:3 : 3 Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him tribute.
  • Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
  • Hos 8:9-9 : 9 For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers. 10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
  • Ezek 16:28 : 28 You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.
  • Ezek 16:37 : 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those that you have loved, with all those that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will uncover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness.
  • Ezek 23:7 : 7 Thus she committed her harlotries with them, with all the choice men of Assyria, and with all on whom she lusted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
  • Ezek 23:9 : 9 Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she lusted.
  • Ezek 23:12 : 12 She lusted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
  • Ezek 23:16 : 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
  • Ezek 23:20 : 20 For she lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
  • Hos 10:6 : 6 It shall also be carried to Assyria as a gift to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
  • Hos 12:1 : 1 Ephraim feeds on the wind, and pursues the east wind; he daily increases lies and desolation, and they make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
  • 2 Kgs 17:7-9 : 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods. 8 And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city. 10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger. 12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing. 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. 15 They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them. 16 They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
  • Jer 50:38 : 38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of carved images, and they are mad upon their idols.
  • 1 Kgs 14:9 : 9 But have done evil above all that were before you: for you have gone and made for yourself other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:
  • 1 Kgs 14:16 : 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned, and who made Israel to sin.
  • 1 Kgs 15:26 : 26 He did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin by which he made Israel to sin.
  • 1 Kgs 15:30 : 30 because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and made Israel to sin, by his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
  • 1 Kgs 16:31-32 : 31 And as if it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshipped him. 32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.
  • 1 Kgs 21:26 : 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

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  • Ezek 23:3-4
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    3And they committed harlotry in Egypt; they committed harlotry in their youth: there their breasts were pressed, and there they bruised the nipples of their virginity.

    4And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names: Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

  • Ezek 23:6-14
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    6Who were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

    7Thus she committed her harlotries with them, with all the choice men of Assyria, and with all on whom she lusted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

    8She did not leave her harlotries brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their harlotry upon her.

    9Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she lusted.

    10They uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and killed her with the sword: and she became notorious among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

    11And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries.

    12She lusted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

    13Then I saw that she was defiled, that they both followed the same way,

    14And that she increased her harlotries: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

  • Ezek 23:43-44
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    43Then said I to her who was old in adulteries, Will they now commit harlotries with her, and she with them?

    44Yet they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that plays the harlot: so they went in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women.

  • Ezek 23:16-23
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    16And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

    17And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their harlotry, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

    18So she uncovered her harlotries, and uncovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, just as my mind was alienated from her sister.

    19Yet she multiplied her harlotries, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, when she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

    20For she lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

    21Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in bruising your breasts by the Egyptians for the pleasures of your youth.

    22Therefore, O Aholibah, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your mind is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side;

    23The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

  • Ezek 23:35-37
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    35Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you shall also bear your lewdness and your harlotries.

    36The LORD said moreover to me; Son of man, will you judge Aholah and Aholibah? Yes, declare to them their abominations;

    37That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.

  • Ezek 16:28-30
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    28You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.

    29You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea, and yet you were not satisfied with this.

    30How weak is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious, whorish woman;

  • Hos 2:5
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    5For their mother has played the harlot: she who conceived them has acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

  • Jer 11:15
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    15What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30I will do these things to you, because you have gone a whoring after the heathen, and because you are polluted with their idols.

  • Jer 3:6-9
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    6The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

    7And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to me. But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

    8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

    9And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

  • Ezek 16:15-17
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    15But you trusted in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your fornications on everyone that passed by; it was his.

    16And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with different colors, and played the harlot thereupon; such things shall not come, nor shall it be so.

    17You have also taken your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them,

  • Hos 5:3
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    3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me: for now, O Ephraim, you commit whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

  • Hos 2:13
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    13And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.

  • Jer 5:7
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    7How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

  • Ezek 16:35-37
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    35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD;

    36Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to them:

    37Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those that you have loved, with all those that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will uncover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness.

  • Jer 2:20
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    20For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.

  • Hos 2:10
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    10And now I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall rescue her out of my hand.

  • Hos 2:7
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    7And she shall pursue her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband; for it was better with me then than now.

  • Ezek 16:26
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    26You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

  • Jer 3:2
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    2Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness.

  • Hos 3:1
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    1Then the LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman loved by her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.

  • Hos 8:9
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    9For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.