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She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/23.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“Then she carried her prostitution even further. She fell in love with pictures that were painted on a wall—pictures of Babylonian military officers, outfitted in striking red uniforms.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/23.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/23.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And <i>that</i> she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/23.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />But she increased her harlotry; She looked at men portrayed on the wall, Images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/23.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />So she increased her obscene practices. And she saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans drawn in bright red,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/23.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/23.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/23.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />But Oholibah carried her depravity further, for she saw men pictured on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans (Babylonians) sketched <i>and</i> portrayed in vermilion (bright red pigment),<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/23.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in bright red,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/23.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/23.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But Oholibah behaved worse than her sister. Oholibah saw images of Babylonian men carved into walls and painted red. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/23.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/23.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Yet, she carried her prostitution even further. She saw pictures of men carved on walls. They were figures of Babylonian men, painted in bright red.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/23.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"She became even more sexually immoral when she saw the images of the Chaldean men who had been carved in red on their walls. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/23.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/23.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />But she increased her prostitution. She saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans carved in bright red,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/23.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/23.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And that she increased her prostitutions: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/23.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/23.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And she adds to her whoredoms, "" And she sees men carved on the wall, "" Pictures of Chaldeans, carved with vermillion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/23.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And she doth add unto her whoredoms, And she seeth graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/23.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And she will add to her fornications: and she will see men delineated upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans being delineated with red color.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/23.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And she increased her fornications. And when she had seen men depicted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans, expressed in colors,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/23.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />She went further in her prostitution: She saw male figures drawn on the wall, images of Chaldeans drawn with vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/23.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But she carried her whorings further; she saw male figures carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/23.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And they added to their whoredoms; for when they saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/23.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And they added to their fornications and they saw men who were painted on the wall, images of the Chaldeans who were painted in pigments<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/23.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And she increased her harlotries; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/23.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=6464" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/23.htm">The Adultery of Oholah and Oholibah</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">13</span>And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path. <span class="reftext">14</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3254.htm" title="3254: wat·tō·w·sep̄ (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To add. A primitive root; to add or augment.">But Oholibah carried</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/8457.htm" title="8457: taz·nū·ṯe·hā (N-fpc:: 3fs) -- Fornication. Or taznuth; from zanah; harlotry, i.e. idolatry.">her prostitution even further.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: wat·tê·re (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">She saw</a> <a href="/hebrew/582.htm" title="582: ’an·šê (N-mpc) -- Man, mankind. From 'anash; properly, a mortal; hence, a man in general.">the men</a> <a href="/hebrew/2707.htm" title="2707: mə·ḥuq·qeh (V-Pual-Prtcpl-ms) -- To cut in, carve. A primitive root; to carve; by implication, to delineate; also to entrench.">portrayed</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/7023.htm" title="7023: haq·qîr (Art:: N-ms) -- A wall. Or qir; or qiyrah; from quwr; a wall.">the wall,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6754.htm" title="6754: ṣal·mê (N-mpc) -- From an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol.">images</a> <a href="/hebrew/3778.htm" title="3778: ḵaś·dī·yīm (N-proper-mp) -- A region of S. Bab. and its inhab. (occasionally with enclitic) Kasdiymah; towards the Kasdites.">of the Chaldeans,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2710.htm" title="2710: ḥă·qu·qîm (V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-mp) -- To cut in, inscribe, decree. A primitive root; properly, to hack, i.e. Engrave; by implication, to enact or Prescribe.">engraved</a> <a href="/hebrew/8350.htm" title="8350: baš·šā·šar (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Red color, vermilion. Perhaps from the base of sharar in the sense of that of saruq; red ochre.">in vermilion,</a> </span><span class="reftext">15</span>wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/22-14.htm">Jeremiah 22:14</a></span><br />who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/44-13.htm">Isaiah 44:13</a></span><br />The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/9-30.htm">2 Kings 9:30</a></span><br />Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-8.htm">Isaiah 57:8</a></span><br />Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-30.htm">Jeremiah 4:30</a></span><br />And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-4.htm">Revelation 17:4</a></span><br />The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-16.htm">Revelation 18:16</a></span><br />saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/2-16.htm">1 John 2:16</a></span><br />For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-28.htm">Matthew 5:28</a></span><br />But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/6-25.htm">Proverbs 6:25</a></span><br />Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_peter/2-14.htm">2 Peter 2:14</a></span><br />Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/3-16.htm">Isaiah 3:16</a></span><br />The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/3-18.htm">Isaiah 3:18-23</a></span><br />In that day the Lord will take away their finery: their anklets and headbands and crescents; / their pendants, bracelets, and veils; / their headdresses, ankle chains, and sashes; their perfume bottles and charms; ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/2-13.htm">Hosea 2:13</a></span><br />I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Jeremiah 13:27</a></span><br />Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And that she increased her prostitutions: for when she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,</p><p class="hdg">pourtrayed</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Ezekiel 8:10</a></b></br> So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/46-1.htm">Isaiah 46:1</a></b></br> Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages <i>were</i> heavy loaden; <i>they are</i> a burden to the weary <i>beast</i>.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/50-2.htm">Jeremiah 50:2</a></b></br> Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, <i>and</i> conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.</p><p class="hdg">vermilion</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/22-14.htm">Jeremiah 22:14</a></b></br> That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and <i>it is</i> cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/lamentations/4-22.htm">Add</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Behaviour</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-21.htm">Bright</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-13.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-13.htm">Chaldaeans</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-13.htm">Chaldeans</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-13.htm">Chalde'ans</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-5.htm">Figures</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-27.htm">Further</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/3-7.htm">Graved</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Harlotries</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-7.htm">Images</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-15.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-31.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-14.htm">Painted</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Pictured</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-16.htm">Pictures</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Portrayed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Pourtrayed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Prostitutions</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-21.htm">Red</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-14.htm">Vermilion</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-30.htm">Wall</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Worse</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/44-7.htm">Add</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Behaviour</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-19.htm">Bright</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Carried</a> <a href="/daniel/2-2.htm">Chaldaeans</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-23.htm">Chaldeans</a> <a href="/daniel/2-2.htm">Chalde'ans</a> <a href="/john/16-25.htm">Figures</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-38.htm">Further</a> <a href="/1_kings/6-35.htm">Graved</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Harlotries</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm">Images</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-40.htm">Painted</a> <a href="/ezekiel/41-18.htm">Pictured</a> <a href="/numbers/33-52.htm">Pictures</a> <a href="/galatians/3-1.htm">Portrayed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Pourtrayed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Prostitutions</a> <a href="/joel/2-6.htm">Red</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-14.htm">Vermilion</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-8.htm">Wall</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/daniel/1-10.htm">Worse</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 23</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-1.htm">The unfaithfulness of Aholah and Aholibah</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-23.htm">Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers</a></span><br><span class="reftext">36. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-36.htm">The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both</a></span><br><span class="reftext">45. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-45.htm">and shows their judgments</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The term "prostitution" is metaphorical, referring to spiritual unfaithfulness and idolatry. Jerusalem's actions are depicted as worse than those of Samaria (Oholah), indicating a deeper level of apostasy. This reflects the historical context where Jerusalem, despite witnessing the downfall of Samaria due to idolatry, continued in similar sins, showing a hardened heart against God's warnings.<p><b>She saw the men portrayed on the wall,</b><br>This phrase suggests the influence of foreign cultures and their allure. The portrayal of men on walls could refer to murals or reliefs common in ancient Near Eastern palaces and temples, symbolizing the admiration and desire for foreign powers and their ways. This visual representation indicates how the Israelites were drawn to the practices and gods of surrounding nations, leading them away from their covenant with Yahweh.<p><b>images of the Chaldeans,</b><br>The Chaldeans were a Semitic people who became dominant in Babylon. Their mention here highlights the political and cultural influence Babylon had over Judah. Historically, the Chaldeans were known for their advanced civilization and military prowess, which might have seemed attractive to the leaders of Jerusalem. This fascination with Chaldean culture and power is seen as a betrayal of trust in God, who had repeatedly warned against alliances with pagan nations.<p><b>engraved in vermilion,</b><br>Vermilion, a bright red pigment, was often used in ancient art and decoration, symbolizing wealth and prestige. The use of vermilion in the depiction of the Chaldeans suggests the allure and seductive nature of their culture. This detail emphasizes the extent to which Jerusalem was captivated by the splendor and apparent power of Babylon, leading to further spiritual adultery. The vivid imagery serves as a warning against being enticed by the superficial allure of worldly power and wealth, which can lead to spiritual compromise.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet of God who ministered to the Israelites during their Babylonian exile. He is the author of the book and delivers God's messages of judgment and restoration.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/o/oholibah.htm">Oholibah</a></b><br>Symbolic name for Jerusalem, representing the southern kingdom of Judah. In this chapter, she is depicted as a woman who engages in idolatry and unfaithfulness to God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/c/chaldeans.htm">Chaldeans</a></b><br>A people from southern Babylonia, known for their influence and power. They are depicted as a source of temptation and idolatry for Jerusalem.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/i/images_on_the_wall.htm">Images on the Wall</a></b><br>Representations of the Chaldeans that captivated Jerusalem, leading her further into idolatry and away from God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/p/prostitution.htm">Prostitution</a></b><br>Used metaphorically to describe the spiritual unfaithfulness and idolatry of Jerusalem, as she turns away from God to pursue foreign alliances and gods.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/i/idolatry's_allure.htm">Idolatry's Allure</a></b><br>The passage warns against the seductive nature of idolatry, which can captivate and lead believers away from God. We must guard our hearts against modern-day idols.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_unfaithfulness.htm">Spiritual Unfaithfulness</a></b><br>Just as Jerusalem was unfaithful to God, believers today must remain vigilant in their commitment to God, avoiding spiritual adultery.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/cultural_temptations.htm">Cultural Temptations</a></b><br>The Chaldeans' images symbolize cultural influences that can lead us astray. Christians should be discerning about the cultural messages they embrace.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_return.htm">Repentance and Return</a></b><br>Despite unfaithfulness, God calls His people to repentance and restoration. We should seek God's forgiveness and return to Him wholeheartedly.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/v/vigilance_in_faith.htm">Vigilance in Faith</a></b><br>The passage encourages believers to remain steadfast in their faith, resisting the temptation to conform to worldly standards.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_23.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 23</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_are_oholah_and_oholibah.htm">Who were Oholah and Oholibah in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_do_colors_symbolize_in_the_bible.htm">What do colors symbolize in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_god_both_merciful_and_vengeful.htm">What explains the apparent inconsistency between God's merciful nature elsewhere and the violent retribution depicted in Ezekiel 23:22-27?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_are_samaria_and_jerusalem_immoral.htm">Why does Ezekiel 23:4 personify Samaria and Jerusalem as immoral sisters, and is there historical or archeological evidence to support these specific accusations?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/23.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) <span class= "bld">Men portrayed upon the wall.</span>--Such portraitures, with evidence that they were once executed in brilliant colours, are characteristic both of Egypt and Assyria, where stone for sculpture abounded. From the close connection in race and customs between the Assyrians and Babylonians, it cannot be doubted that the same portraitures were also common upon the more perishable brick of the latter, of whom the prophet is now speaking. The monuments fully concur in representing the warriors of Assyria and Babylonia as delighting in extreme gorgeousness of apparel, but it is difficult to render into English with accuracy each particular of their dress. The exiles, whom Ezekiel immediately addressed, were familiar with these pictures, and his way of speaking of them was important in checking any disposition to fall into idolatries by means of them.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/23.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 14.</span> - The sin of Judah went a stop further than that of Samaria. She courted the alliance of the Chaldeans. Probably the sojourn of Manasseh at Babylon (<a href="/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">2 Chronicles 33:11</a>) led him to see in that city a possible rival to Assyria. The embassy of Merodach-Baladan to Hezekiah (<a href="/isaiah/39.htm">Isaiah 39</a>.) implies, on the other hand, that Babylon was looking to Judah for support against Assyria. The prophet represents this political coquetting, so to speak, as another act of whoredom. Aholibah saw the <span class="cmt_word">images of</span> <span class="cmt_word">the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion</span> (probably "red ochre:" colors seem to have been used largely both in Assyrian and Babylonian sculpture as in Egyptian, and Judah seems to have copied them, <a href="/jeremiah/22-14.htm">Jeremiah 22:14</a>) and fell in love with them. As the passions of a Messalina might be roused by sensuous pictures of masculine beauty, so Judah was led on by what her envoys reported of the magnificence of the palaces, the strength of the armies, of the Chaldeans. The journey of Jonah to Nineveh, and those implied in <a href="/hosea/7-11.htm">Hosea 7:11</a>, as well as the prophecy of Nahum, all indicate a more or less intimate knowledge of the Mesopotamian monarchies. The mission of Merodach-Baladan would be naturally followed by a return embassy from Judah. A later instance under Zedekiah meets us in <a href="/jeremiah/29-3.htm">Jeremiah 29:3</a>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">But [Oholibah] carried</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתּ֖וֹסֶף</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tō·w·sep̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3254.htm">Strong's 3254: </a> </span><span class="str2">To add, augment</span><br /><br /><span class="word">her prostitution {even further}.</span><br /><span class="heb">תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ</span> <span class="translit">(taz·nū·ṯe·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8457.htm">Strong's 8457: </a> </span><span class="str2">Harlotry, idolatry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">She saw</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתֵּ֗רֶא</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tê·re)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> </span><span class="str2">To see</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the men</span><br /><span class="heb">אַנְשֵׁי֙</span> <span class="translit">(’an·šê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> </span><span class="str2">A man as an individual, a male person</span><br /><br /><span class="word">portrayed</span><br /><span class="heb">מְחֻקֶּ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(mə·ḥuq·qeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2707.htm">Strong's 2707: </a> </span><span class="str2">To carve, to delineate, to entrench</span><br /><br /><span class="word">on</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the wall,</span><br /><span class="heb">הַקִּ֔יר</span> <span class="translit">(haq·qîr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7023.htm">Strong's 7023: </a> </span><span class="str2">A wall</span><br /><br /><span class="word">images</span><br /><span class="heb">צַלְמֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(ṣal·mê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6754.htm">Strong's 6754: </a> </span><span class="str2">A phantom, illusion, resemblance, a representative figure, an idol</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the Chaldeans,</span><br /><span class="heb">כַשְׂדִּ֔ים</span> <span class="translit">(ḵaś·dîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3778.htm">Strong's 3778: </a> </span><span class="str2">Chaldeans -- a region of southern Babylon and its inhab</span><br /><br /><span class="word">engraved</span><br /><span class="heb">חֲקֻקִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(ḥă·qu·qîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2710.htm">Strong's 2710: </a> </span><span class="str2">To hack, engrave, to enact, prescribe</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in vermilion,</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּשָּׁשַֽׁר׃</span> <span class="translit">(baš·šā·šar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8350.htm">Strong's 8350: </a> </span><span class="str2">Red color, vermilion</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/23-14.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 23:14 She increased her prostitution (Ezek. 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