🔥WEB · Ezekiel 23:42
What does Ezekiel 23:42 mean?
"“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads."
— Ezekiel 23:42 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, they have done this in the middle of my house.
“Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments,
and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.
“The voice of a multitude being at ease was with her. With men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads.
Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now they will play the prostitute with her, and she with them.’
They went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
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