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Ezekiel 23:7
Ezekiel 23:7 is verse 7 of Ezekiel chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
King James Version
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
World English Bible
She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whomever she lusted after.
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Ezekiel 23:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.
7 She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.
9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ezekiel 16:15But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.
Genesis 10:22The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Ezekiel 23:30have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:7And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’
Ezekiel 22:3and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,
Ezekiel 22:4you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
Psalms 106:39They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
Hosea 5:3I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel is defiled.
Hosea 6:10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.