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He said, <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>"Son of man, there were once two women, daughters of the same mother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They became prostitutes in Egypt when they were young. There men fondled and caressed their breasts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>"The older girl was named Oholah, and the younger girl was named Oholibah. I married them, and they gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah represents Samaria, and Oholibah represents Jerusalem.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Oholah acted like a prostitute, although she was my wife. She lusted after her Assyrian lovers who lived nearby. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They were governors and commanders clothed in purple. They were all handsome young men who rode on horses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>She became a prostitute for all the important men in Assyria. She dishonored herself with the idols of all those with whom she fell in love. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>She continued the prostitution that she started in Egypt. When she was young, men went to bed with her, caressed her breasts, and treated her like a prostitute. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>"That is why I handed her over to her lovers, to the Assyrians whom she lusted after. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They stripped her naked, took away her sons and daughters, and killed her with a sword. Women gossiped about how she was punished.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>"Even though her younger sister Oholibah saw this, Oholibah lusted after men more than her sister did. Oholibah's prostitution became worse than her sister's prostitution. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>She lusted after the Assyrians who were nearby. They were governors and commanders in full dress. They were mounted horsemen, all of them desirable young men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I saw that she was dishonoring herself. Both sisters acted the same way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The men had belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads. All of them looked like Babylonian officers who were born in Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>She fell in love with them at first sight and sent messengers to them in Babylonia. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So these men came from Babylon, went to bed with her, and dishonored her with their lust. After they had dishonored her, she turned away from them in disgust. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>"She carried out her prostitution openly, and she lay around naked. I turned away from her in disgust as I had turned away from her sister. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>She remembered how she had been a prostitute in Egypt when she was young. So she took part in even more prostitution. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose semen was like that of horses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So she longed to do the sinful things she did when she was young in Egypt, when young men caressed and fondled her breasts.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>"Oholibah, this is what the Almighty LORD says: I'm going to stir up your lovers against you. They are the lovers you turned away from in disgust. I will bring them against you from every side. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I will bring men from Babylon and from all Babylonia, men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, as well as all the Assyrians. They are desirable young men, governors and commanders, military officers and important men. All of them ride on horses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>They will attack you from the north, with chariots and wagons and with a large number of troops. They will attack you from all around with small and large shields and with helmets. I have handed you over to them for punishment. They will punish you with their own kind of punishment. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I will direct my burning anger against you so that they will deal with you in anger. They will cut off your nose and ears and kill everyone who remains. They will take your sons and your daughters and burn down whatever is left. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They will rip off your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I will put a stop to your sinning and to your prostitution, which you began in Egypt. You won't desire these things anymore or remember Egypt anymore. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>"This is what the Almighty LORD says: I'm going to hand you over to those you hate and to those you turned away from in disgust. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>They will treat you hatefully and take away everything that you have worked for. They will leave you naked and bare. The shame of your prostitution will be revealed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Your sinning and your prostitution have done this to you, because you lusted after the nations and dishonored yourself with their idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>You've acted the same way as your sister. That is why I will put her cup in your hand.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>This is what the Almighty LORD says: You will drink from your sister's cup, a cup that is deep and wide. You will be scorned and mocked, because this cup holds so much.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The cup of your sister Samaria will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>You will drink from it and drain it. You will break it into pieces and tear your breasts off your body. I have spoken, declares the Almighty LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>"This is what the Almighty LORD says: You have forgotten me and turned your back on me. So you will be punished for your sinning and prostitution."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The LORD said to me, "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah and tell them about their disgusting practices? <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>They have committed adultery. Their hands are covered with blood. They commit adultery with their idols. They have sacrificed the children they gave birth to for me as burnt offerings to idols. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>They have also done this to me: They have polluted my holy places when they do these things and dishonored the days to worship me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>When they sacrificed their children to their idols, they came into my holy place and dishonored it. That is what they've done in my temple.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>"They even sent messengers to invite men to come from far away. When the men arrived, they washed themselves for the men, painted their eyes, and put on their jewels. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>They sat on their fine couches with tables in front of them. They put my incense and my olive oil on their tables. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>"I heard the noise from a carefree crowd. A large number of people came from the desert, and they put bracelets on the women's wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Then I said, 'She is worn out from her acts of adultery.' Yet, men continued to have sex with her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Men slept with her. They slept with those sinful women, Oholah and Oholibah just as they slept with a prostitute. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Righteous people will punish these women for adultery and for murder, because these women have committed adultery and their hands are covered with blood.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>"This is what the Almighty LORD says: Bring together a mob [against the people of Samaria and Jerusalem]. Hand them over to terror and looting. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Then the mob will stone them and kill them with swords. The mob will kill their sons and daughters and burn their homes. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>So I will put a stop to the sinning in the land, and all the women will be warned not to sin as they do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/23-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>They will be punished for their sins, and they will pay for their sin of idolatry. Then they will know that I am the Almighty LORD."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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