Ezekiel 23:1–9
1The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,↗
2“Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.↗
3They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.↗
4Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.↗
5“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,↗
6who were clothed with blue—governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.↗
7She 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.↗
8She hasn’t left her prostitution since leaving Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her. They caressed her youthful nipples and they poured out their prostitution on her.↗
9“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted.↗
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