🔥WEB · Ezekiel 23:16
What does Ezekiel 23:16 mean?
"As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea."
— Ezekiel 23:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.
“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,
dressed with belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.
Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
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