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Ezekiel 23:44

in Ezekiel 23

And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.

KJV

Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

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This verse in Ezekiel 23

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 36, 37 onwards) And the Lord said to me, saying: Son of man, do you judge Oholah and Oholibah and announce to them their crimes (or iniquities): for they are adulteresses (or have committed adultery), and there is blood on their hands, and they have committed adultery with their idols (or inventions): moreover, they have offered to devour (or have led) their sons whom they have borne to me through fire. But they have also done this to me, they have defiled my sanctuary on that day: and they have profaned my Sabbaths.

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Note, Those hearts go a whoring from God that take a complacency in the pomp of the world and put a confidence in its wealth, and in an arm of flesh, Jer. xvii. Let them be made to foresee the judgments that are coming upon them for these sins (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Smite the scorner and the simple will beware. The judgments of God upon some are designed to teach others, and happy are those who receive instruction from them not to tread in the steps of sinners, lest they be taken in their snares; those who would be taught this must know God is the Lord (

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Yet they went in unto her,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thus God will assert the honour of his broken law and injured government, and let the world know what a just and jealous God he is. (2.) Thus they shall be broken off from their sins: I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land,

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּב֣וֹאand he went

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֵלֶ֔יהָinto her

    ʾeleihaH413 →5510 times

  • כְּב֖וֹאas goes

    kevo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אִשָּׁ֣הa woman

    ʾishahH802 →781 times

  • זוֹנָ֑הa prostitute

    zonahH2181 →94 times

  • כֵּ֣ןso

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • בָּ֗אוּthey went

    bauH935 →2568 times

  • אֶֽל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אָֽהֳלָה֙Oholah

    ʾoholahH170 →5 times

  • וְאֶל־and into

    veel-H413 →5510 times

  • אָ֣הֳלִיבָ֔הOholibah

    ʾoholivahH172 →6 times

  • אִשֹּׁ֖ת[the] women of

    ʾishotH802 →781 times

  • הַזִּמָּֽה׃<the> licentiousness

    hazimahH2154 →29 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 23:3

    and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 17:7

      They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’

    • Ezekiel 16:22

      And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.

    • Joshua 24:14

      Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

    • Ezekiel 20:8

      But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out…

    • Hosea 2:15

      There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the…

Where this verse is studied

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About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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