Ezekiel 23:20 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 23:20

and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

KJV

For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

She doted upon their paramours - פלגשיהם pillagsheyhem, their harlots or concubines. Anciently harlot meant in our language either the male or female prostitute. Whose flesh is as the flesh of asses - See on Eze 16:25 (note).

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(3.) Of seeking to creatures for help; we go from one to another, but are disappointed in them all, and can never rest till we have made the God of Israel our help. The faithful God justly gives a bill of divorce to this now faithless city, that has become a harlot.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔ה	va.ta'.ge.Vah	and she lusted !	H5689 →
עַ֖ל	'al	on	H5921 →
פִּֽלַגְשֵׁיהֶ֑ם	pi.lag.shei.Hem	paramours their	H6370 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	whom	H834 →
בְּשַׂר־	be.sar-	[was the] flesh of	H1320 →
חֲמוֹרִים֙	cha.mo.Rim	donkeys	H2543 →
בְּשָׂרָ֔ם	be.sa.Ram	flesh their	H1320 →
וְזִרְמַ֥ת	ve.zir.Mat	and [was the] ejaculation of	H2231 →
סוּסִ֖ים	su.Sim	horses	H5483 →
זִרְמָתָֽם׃	zir.ma.Tam	ejaculation their	H2231 →

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The walk8

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
Ezekiel 16:20
You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
leads to
- Ezekiel 23:37
  For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food…
- Jeremiah 7:31
  They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
- Psalms 106:37–38
  They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
- Ezekiel 20:26
  And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.
Through
Ezekiel 17:15
But this king rebelled against Babylon by sending his envoys to Egypt to ask for horses and a large army. Will he flourish? Will the one who does such things escape? Can he break…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 36:13
  He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
- Jeremiah 38:18
  But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself…
- Deuteronomy 17:16
  But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way…
Through
Ezekiel 16:26
You prostituted yourself with your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, and increased your promiscuity to provoke Me to anger.
leads to
- Ezekiel 23:19–21
  Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

About Ezekiel

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

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Ezekiel