“1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 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. 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. 5 And
Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers,
on the Assyrians [her] neighbours, 6 [Which were] clothed with blue,
captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding
upon horses. 7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them
[that were] the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted:
with all their idols she defiled herself. 8 Neither left she her
whoredoms [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and
they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom
upon her. 9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. 10 These discovered
her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with
the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed
judgment upon her.”
“11 And when her sister Aholibah saw [this], she was more corrupt in
her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister
in [her] whoredoms. 12 She doted upon the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon
horses, all of them desirable young men. 13 Then I saw that she was
defiled, [that] they [took] both one way, 14 And [that] she increased
her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images
of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, 15 Girded with girdles upon
their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them
princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the
land of their nativity: 16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes,
she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. 17 And
the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her
with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was
alienated from them. 18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered
her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was
alienated from her sister. 19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in
calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the
harlot in the land of Egypt. 20 For she doted upon their paramours,
whose flesh [is as] the flesh of asses, and whose issue [is like] the
issue of horses. 21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of
thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy
youth.”
“22 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I
will bring them against thee on every side; 23 The Babylonians, and all
the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, [and] all the Assyrians with
them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords
and renowned, all of them riding upon horses. 24 And they shall come
against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of
people, [which] shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet
round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge
thee according to their judgments. 25 And I will set my jealousy against
thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy
nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall
take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by
the fire. 26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take
away thy fair jewels. 27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from
thee, and thy whoredom [brought] from the land of Egypt: so that thou
shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. 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. 33 Thou shalt be filled
with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and
desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. 34 Thou shalt even drink
it and suck [it] out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck
off thine own breasts: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD. 35
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and
cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy
whoredoms.”
“36 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah
and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 37 That they
have committed adultery, and blood [is] in their hands, and with their
idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons,
whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through [the fire], to devour
[them]. 38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my
sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. 39 For when
they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same
day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the
midst of mine house. 40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to
come from far, unto whom a messenger [was] sent; and, lo, they came: for
whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself
with ornaments, 41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared
before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. 42 And a
voice of a multitude being at ease [was] with her: and with the men of
the common sort [were] brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put
bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. 43
Then said I unto [her that was] old in adulteries, Will they now commit
whoredoms with her, and she [with them]? 44 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. 45 And the righteous men, they
shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner
of women that shed blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood
[is] in their hands. 46 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a
company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. 47 And
the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their
swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up
their houses with fire. 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of
the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 49
And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the
sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord GOD.”
(Ezekiel 23:1-49 AV)
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