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Ezekiel 23:30 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols. "
Ezekiel 23:30
Verse in Context
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28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
30 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
32 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
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Ezekiel 23:1
"The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 23:2
"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:"
Ezekiel 23:3
"And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity."
Ezekiel 23:4
"And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah."
Ezekiel 23:5
"And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,"
Ezekiel 23:6
"Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses."
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