The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 22:26 (NKJV)
Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

 

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Ezekiel 22:27 (NIV)

Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.

 

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Ezekiel 22:28 (NIV)

Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say,
“This is what the Sovereign Lord says”– when the Lord has not spoken.

 

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Ezekiel 22:29 (KJV)
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

 

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Ezekiel 22:30 (King James 2000 Bible)
And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

 

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Ezekiel 22:31 (NIV)

So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads
all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.’

 

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Ezekiel 23:1 (NIV)

The word of the Lord came to me:

 

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Ezekiel 23:2 (KJV)
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

 

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Ezekiel 23:3 (AKJV)
And they committed prostitutions in Egypt; they committed prostitutions in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

 

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Ezekiel 23:4 (NKJV)
Their names: Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister; They were Mine, And they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.

 

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Ezekiel 23:5 (NRSV)

Oholah played the whore while she was mine; she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors

 

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Ezekiel 23:6 (NRSV)

clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, mounted horsemen.

 

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Ezekiel 23:7 (NIV)

She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone
she lusted after.

 

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Ezekiel 23:8 (NIV)

She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her
virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

 

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Ezekiel 23:9 (NKJV)
“Therefore I have delivered her Into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of the Assyrians, For whom she lusted.

 

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Ezekiel 23:10 (NKJV)
They uncovered her nakedness, Took away her sons and daughters, And slew her with the sword; She became a byword among women, For they had executed judgment on her.

 

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Ezekiel 23:11 (NKJV)
“Now although her sister Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.

 

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Ezekiel 23:12 (NKJV)
“She lusted for the neighboring Assyrians, Captains and rulers, Clothed most gorgeously, Horsemen riding on horses, All of them desirable young men.

 

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Ezekiel 23:13 (NKJV)
Then I saw that she was defiled; Both took the same way.

 

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Ezekiel 23:14 (CSB)
But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in bright red,