Ezekiel 23:14 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 23:14

But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

BSB

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ASV

And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

KJV

And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

After Israel’s captivity Judah intrigued first with Assyria, then with Babylon, courting their monarchs, imitating their customs, and learning their idolatries. Pourtrayed upon the wall - The monuments of Nineveh show how the walls of its palaces were adorned with figures precisely answering to this description. There is evidence that these sculptures were highly colored with vermilion, or rather, red ochre.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתּ֖וֹסֶף	va.To.sef	and she added	H3254 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ	taz.nu.Tei.ha	prostitution<s> her	H8457 →
וַתֵּ֗רֶא	va.Te.re'	and she saw	H7200 →
אַנְשֵׁי֙	'an.Shei	men of	H582 →
מְחֻקֶּ֣ה	me.chu.Keh	a carved [thing]	H2707 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הַקִּ֔יר	ha.Kir	the wall	H7023 →
צַלְמֵ֣י	tzal.Mei	[the] images of	H6754 →
כַשְׂדִּ֔ים	khas.di.yim	[the] Chaldeans	H3778 →
חֲקֻקִ֖ים	cha.ku.Kim	inscribed	H2710 →
בַּשָּׁשַֽׁר׃	ba.sha.Shar	with <the> vermilion	H8350 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 50:2
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced,…
leads to
- Isaiah 21:9
  Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 46:1
  Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- Jeremiah 51:47
  Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
Through
Isaiah 46:1
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:44
  I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 50:2
  “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced,…
Through
Ezekiel 8:10
So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
leads to
- Exodus 20:4
  You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- Romans 1:23
  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Through
Jeremiah 22:14
who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 7:2
  he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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