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Ezekiel 23:11 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 23 · verse 11
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.Ezekiel 23:11 · King James Version
Ezekiel 23:11 in context
9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
11And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
12She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, 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 took both one way,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- whoredomstaznûwthharlotryH8457 →
- AholibahʼOhŏlîybâhOholibah, a symbolic name for JudahH172 →
- corruptshâchathto decayH7843 →
- sisterʼâchôwtha sister , literally and figuratively)H269 →
- loveʻăgâbâhloveH5691 →
- sawrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
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The prophet Hosea, in his time, observed that the two tribes retained their integrity, in a great measure, when the ten tribes had apostatized (Hos 11:12, Ephraim indeed compasses me about with lies, but Judah yet rules with God and is faithful with the saints;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-21