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Ezekiel 23 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:1 - The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:2 - Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:3 - and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:4 - And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:5 - And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:6 - who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:8 - Neither hath she left her whoredoms since the days of Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:9 - Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:10 - These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:12 - She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:13 - And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:14 - And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:15 - girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:16 - And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:17 - And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:18 - So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:19 - Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:20 - And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:21 - Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:22 - Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:23 - the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:24 - And they shall come against thee with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a company of peoples; they shall set themselves against thee with buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will commit the judgment unto them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:25 - And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:26 - They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:27 - Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt; so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:28 - For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy soul is alienated;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:29 - and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast played the harlot after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:31 - Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup, which is deep and large; thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:34 - Thou shalt even drink it and drain it out, and thou shalt gnaw the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:35 - Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:36 - Jehovah said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare unto them their abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37 - For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through the fire unto them to be devoured.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:38 - Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:40 - And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thine eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:41 - and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set mine incense and mine oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:42 - And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of them twain, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:43 - Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot with her, and she with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:44 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:45

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:45 - And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:46

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:46 - For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:47 - And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:48

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:48 - Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49 - And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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