Ezekiel 23:1-13 ▼

1 The word of Jehovah will come to me, saying,

2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:

3 And they will commit fornication in Egypt; in their youth they committal fornication: there were their breasts pressed, and the breasts of their virginity fell away.

4 And their names Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister; and they will be to me, and they will bring forth sons and daughters, and their names Shomeron-Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah.

5 And Aholah will commit fornication under me; and she will desire after those loving her, after Assur, they being near.

6 Putting on cerulean purple, prefects and governors, young men of desire all of them, horsemen riding horses.

7 And she will give her whoredoms upon them from the choice of the sons of Assur all of them, and with all whom she desired; being defiled with all their blocks.

8 And her fornications from Egypt she forsook not: for they lay with her in her youth, and they handled the breasts of her virginity, and they will pour forth her fornications upon her.

9 For this I delivered her into the hand of those loving her, into the hand of the sons of Assur whom she desired after them.

10 They uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters and slew them with the sword: and she will be a name to women, and they did judgments upon her.

11 And her sister Aholibah will see, and she will corrupt her love more than they, and her fornications more than the fornication of her sister.

12 She desired after the sons of Assur, prefects and governors, being near, putting on splendor, horsemen riding horses, young men of desire, all of them.

13 And I shall see that one way was defiled to both of them.