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class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/23.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/23.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/23.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Yet she turned to even greater prostitution, remembering her youth when she was a prostitute in Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/23.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/23.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/23.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“Yet she multiplied her harlotry In calling to remembrance the days of her youth, When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/23.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her obscene practices, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/23.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/23.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/23.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her depravities, remembering the days of her youth, when she was actively immoral in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/23.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/23.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/23.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Oholibah didn't stop there, but became even more immoral and acted as she had back in Egypt. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/23.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/23.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />She remembered how she had been a prostitute in Egypt when she was young. So she took part in even more prostitution.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/23.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/23.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Nevertheless, she became even more sexually immoral, even reminiscing about when she was young, when she kept on practicing sexual immorality in the land of Egypt. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/23.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/23.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/23.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/23.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/23.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt. <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 multiplies her whoredoms, "" To remember the days of her youth, "" When she went whoring in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/23.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt.<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 multiply her fornications, to remember the days of her youth when she committed fornication in the land of Egypt.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/23.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/23.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she fornicated in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/23.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But she increased her prostitution, recalling the days of her youth when she had served as a prostitute in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/23.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Yet she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/23.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/23.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And she increased her fornication and she was reminded of the days of her youth when she fornicated in the land of Egypt<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/23.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/23.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And thou didst multiply thy fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of thy youth, wherein thou didst commit whoredom in Egypt,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/23-19.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=6519" 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">18</span>When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. <span class="reftext">19</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7235.htm" title="7235: wat·tar·beh (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To be or become much, many or great. A primitive root; to increase.">Yet she multiplied</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></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 promiscuity,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2142.htm" title="2142: liz·kōr (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- Remember. A primitive root; properly, to mark, i.e. To remember; by implication, to mention; also to be male.">remembering</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yə·mê (N-mpc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">the days</a> <a href="/hebrew/5271.htm" title="5271: nə·‘ū·re·hā (N-mpc:: 3fs) -- Or naur; and nturah; properly, passive participle from na'ar as denominative; youth, the state or the persons.">of her youth,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">when</a> <a href="/hebrew/2181.htm" title="2181: zā·nə·ṯāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To commit fornication, be a harlot. A primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to commit idolatry.">she had prostituted herself</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: bə·’e·reṣ (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">in the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/4714.htm" title="4714: miṣ·rā·yim (N-proper-fs) -- A son of Ham, also his desc. and their country in N.W. Africa. Dual of matsowr; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt.">of Egypt</a> </span><span class="reftext">20</span>and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.…<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/3-6.htm">Jeremiah 3:6-10</a></span><br />Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. / I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. / She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. ...<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="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-18</a></span><br />All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/2-20.htm">Jeremiah 2:20-25</a></span><br />“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute. / I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine? / Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12-14</a></span><br />My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-7.htm">Isaiah 57:7-8</a></span><br />On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. / 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/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?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Hosea 9:1</a></span><br />Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-5</a></span><br />Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” / And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/4-4.htm">James 4:4</a></span><br />You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-15.htm">1 Corinthians 6:15-20</a></span><br />Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! / Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” / But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20-22</a></span><br />But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. / Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. / Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24-27</a></span><br />Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. / For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a></span><br />The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_peter/2-14.htm">2 Peter 2:14-15</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. / They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.</p><p class="hdg">multiplied</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Ezekiel 23:14</a></b></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,</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm">Ezekiel 16:25,29,51</a></b></br> Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms… </p><p class="hdg">in calling</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/23-3.htm">Ezekiel 23:3,8,21</a></b></br> And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/16-22.htm">Ezekiel 16:22</a></b></br> And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, <i>and</i> wast polluted in thy blood.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/20-7.htm">Ezekiel 20:7</a></b></br> Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I <i>am</i> the LORD your God.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/23-5.htm">A-Whoring</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Behaviour</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-22.htm">Early</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-8.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-5.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Harlotries</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-14.htm">Keeping</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-15.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-7.htm">Multiplieth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-5.htm">Played</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-7.htm">Prostitute</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-14.htm">Prostitutions</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-11.htm">Recalled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-43.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-19.htm">Remembering</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-24.htm">Remembrance</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-43.htm">Wherein</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-18.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-8.htm">Youth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm">A-Whoring</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-27.htm">Behaviour</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-21.htm">Early</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-21.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-29.htm">Harlotries</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-27.htm">Harlotry</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-33.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-45.htm">Keeping</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-7.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-21.htm">Mind</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-5.htm">Multiplied</a> <a href="/hosea/12-1.htm">Multiplieth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm">Played</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-30.htm">Prostitute</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-27.htm">Prostitution</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-29.htm">Prostitutions</a> <a href="/john/2-17.htm">Recalled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-27.htm">Remember</a> <a href="/mark/11-21.htm">Remembering</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-21.htm">Remembrance</a> <a href="/ezekiel/26-10.htm">Wherein</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-29.htm">Whoredoms</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-21.htm">Youth</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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In the context of <a href="/ezekiel/23.htm">Ezekiel 23</a>, the allegory of two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, represents the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Their promiscuity symbolizes idolatry and unfaithfulness to God. The multiplication of promiscuity suggests a deepening of their spiritual adultery, as they increasingly turned to foreign alliances and pagan worship, contrary to the covenant relationship with Yahweh. This reflects the persistent nature of sin and the tendency to become more entrenched in rebellion against God.<p><b>remembering the days of her youth</b><br>This phrase points to a recollection of past behaviors and experiences. In the context of Israel and Judah, it refers to their early history and initial unfaithfulness to God. The "days of her youth" alludes to the time when the Israelites were in Egypt, where they were first exposed to idolatry and pagan practices. This remembrance is not a nostalgic longing for innocence but a return to former sinful ways. It highlights the danger of looking back to past sins with desire, rather than learning from them and moving forward in faithfulness to God.<p><b>when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt</b><br>This phrase explicitly connects the current unfaithfulness of Israel and Judah to their historical idolatry in Egypt. The metaphor of prostitution is used throughout the Bible to describe spiritual unfaithfulness and idolatry. In Egypt, the Israelites were influenced by the surrounding culture and its gods, which led to their initial spiritual corruption. This historical context underscores the persistent struggle of God's people to remain distinct and faithful amidst pagan influences. It serves as a warning against returning to former sins and highlights the need for repentance and renewal in the covenant relationship with God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/o/oholibah.htm">Oholibah (Jerusalem)</a></b><br>In <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/23.htm">Ezekiel 23</a>, Oholibah represents Jerusalem. The chapter uses allegory to describe the spiritual unfaithfulness of Jerusalem, likening it to a woman who engages in prostitution.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/e/egypt.htm">Egypt</a></b><br>A place of Israel's past bondage and idolatry. In this context, Egypt symbolizes the sinful practices and idolatry that Israel engaged in during their time there.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet of God who conveyed messages of judgment and restoration to the Israelites during their exile in Babylon.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylonian_exile.htm">Babylonian Exile</a></b><br>The historical context in which Ezekiel prophesied. The exile was a result of Israel's persistent idolatry and disobedience to God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/i/idolatry.htm">Idolatry</a></b><br>The central sin being addressed in this passage, where Israel's spiritual infidelity is compared to physical promiscuity.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_adultery.htm">Spiritual Adultery</a></b><br>Just as Oholibah's actions symbolize unfaithfulness, believers are called to examine their own lives for spiritual adultery, such as idolatry or prioritizing anything above God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/remembering_past_sins.htm">Remembering Past Sins</a></b><br>The passage warns against romanticizing or returning to past sins. Believers should remember their past only to learn and grow, not to return to old ways.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_call_to_repentance.htm">God's Call to Repentance</a></b><br>Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God's desire is for repentance and restoration. This is a call for believers to turn back to God wholeheartedly.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_sin.htm">Consequences of Sin</a></b><br>The passage serves as a reminder that sin has consequences, both spiritually and physically. Believers are encouraged to seek God's forgiveness and live righteously.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faithfulness_in_relationship_with_god.htm">Faithfulness in Relationship with God</a></b><br>Just as a marriage requires faithfulness, so does our relationship with God. Believers are encouraged to cultivate a faithful and devoted relationship with Him.<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/why_does_isaiah_19_differ_from_ezekiel_29.htm">Why does Isaiah 19's prophecy differ from other prophetic passages about Egypt (e.g., Ezekiel 29) if they both claim divine judgment?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_ezekiel_19_4,_19_9_captivity.htm">Is there any archaeological evidence that confirms the captivity described in Ezekiel 19:4 and 19:9?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_is_ezekiel_23's_imagery_reconciled.htm">How can the graphic sexual imagery in Ezekiel 23:3 and 20 be reconciled with the holiness and purity usually attributed to Scripture?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_19_2-9_align_with_judah's_exiles.htm">How can Ezekiel 19:2-9 be harmonized with the historical records of Judah's exiles, given the imagery of lion cubs taken captive?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/23.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 19.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Yet she multiplied her whoredoms</span>. The disappointment and failure, however, did not lead to repentance. Foreign alliances, and with them foreign idolatries, were courted more eagerly than ever, though in a different direction. The lovers were changed, but the harlotry went on. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/23-19.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">Yet she multiplied</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתַּרְבֶּ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tar·beh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7235.htm">Strong's 7235: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be or become much, many or great</span><br /><br /><span class="word">her promiscuity,</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">remembering</span><br /><span class="heb">לִזְכֹּר֙</span> <span class="translit">(liz·kōr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2142.htm">Strong's 2142: </a> </span><span class="str2">To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the days</span><br /><span class="heb">יְמֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(yə·mê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of her youth,</span><br /><span class="heb">נְעוּרֶ֔יהָ</span> <span class="translit">(nə·‘ū·re·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5271.htm">Strong's 5271: </a> </span><span class="str2">Youth, the state, the persons</span><br /><br /><span class="word">when</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲשֶׁ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">she had prostituted herself</span><br /><span class="heb">זָנְתָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(zā·nə·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2181.htm">Strong's 2181: </a> </span><span class="str2">To commit adultery, to commit idolatry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in the land</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּאֶ֥רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(bə·’e·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Egypt</span><br /><span class="heb">מִצְרָֽיִם׃</span> <span class="translit">(miṣ·rā·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4714.htm">Strong's 4714: </a> </span><span class="str2">Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/23-19.htm">Ezekiel 23:19 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/23-19.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 23:19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution remembering (Ezek. 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