Ezekiel 23:16 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 23:16

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

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ASV

And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

WEB

At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

YLT

And she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes, And sendeth messengers to them, to Chaldea.

DBT

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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Ezekiel 16:29
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
Isaiah 57:9
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.
Matthew 5:28
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
2 Kings 16:10
And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
Ezekiel 16:17
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

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), joined in alliance with that kingdom, invited them to come and settle in Jerusalem, that they might refine the genius of the Jewish nation and make it more polite; nay, they sent for patterns of their images, altars, and temples, and made use of them in their worship. Thus was she polluted with her whoredoms (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It was she that solicited the Chaldeans, not they her. Probably the occasion was when Judah sought to strengthen herself by a Chaldean alliance against a menaced attack by Egypt (compare 2Ki 23:29-35; God made the object of their sinful desire the instrument of their punishment.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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EZE 23:16JOB 31:1 JAS 1:14-15
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EZE 23:16JOB 31:1 1JN 2:16
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EZE 23:16JOB 31:1 PRO 6:25
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EZE 23:16JOB 31:1 MAT 5:28-29
EZE 23:16JOB 31:1 PSA 119:37
EZE 23:16MAT 5:28 EXO 20:17
EZE 23:16MAT 5:28 2SA 11:2
EZE 23:16EZE 16:17 EZE 23:14-21
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