I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.
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I saw that she was defiled. They both went the same way.
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Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
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And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 23:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 17:18-19 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
- Ezekiel 23:31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’
- Hosea 12:1-2 Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled,…
Eze 23:13 Then I saw that she was defiled, [that] they [took] both one way,
Ver. 13. Then I saw that she was defiled.] Whence it is that man’s nature is so prone to idolatry, and why that sin is compared to adultery, see Polanus upon this chapter, pp. 538-540.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Then; when she took not warning, neither feared.
Then; when she took not warning, neither feared.
She was defiled; her heart was already on her idols. Both Samaria and Jerusalem took one way; chose the same idols and idolatry.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then I saw that she was defiled,.... With idols,…
Then I saw that she was defiled,.... With idols, and the worship of them, Eze 23:7,
that they took both one way; the same way of idolatry; worshipped the same idols, lived the same course of life, were guilty of the same sin, both Israel and Judah.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Eze 23:13-16. Then — When she neither took warning…
Eze 23:13-16. Then — When she neither took warning nor feared; I saw that she was defiled — That her heart was already set on her idols; that they both — Samaria and Jerusalem; took one way — That Judah fell into the same idolatrous practices as Israel. And that she increased her whoredoms — Added to the number of her idolatries; for when she saw men portrayed, &c. — These were probably the pictures of those deified heroes, whom the Chaldeans worshipped as gods; such were Bel, Nebo, and Merodach, mentioned Isa 46:1; Jer 50:2. Calmet, however, understands the words in a different sense, paraphrasing them thus: “Before she had seen the Assyrians, upon the bare relation concerning them, or upon the painting only which was made of them, her passion was inflamed toward them.” Girded with girdles upon their loins — A girdle was a mark of dignity, and worn as such by princes and men in authority. In died attire upon their heads — Houbigant reads, Having their heads bound with a died tiara, or turban. The Chaldeans, and afterward the Persians, wore a sort of turban upon their heads, died of different colours, and with different degrees of ornaments, according to their different qualities. As soon as she saw them, she doted upon them — These images pleased her so much, that she sent to Babylon to learn the manner how their idols were to be worshipped: see Eze 23:40-41; Eze 16:17. This, Lowth thinks, relates to those times when a correspondence was maintained between the cities of Babylon and Jerusalem, after that Nebuchadnezzar had conquered Judea, and made it a tributary kingdom, in the beginning of the fourth year of Jehoiakim.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain one way--both alike forsaking God for heathen confidences.
one way--both alike forsaking God for heathen confidences.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Then I saw that she was defiled, that they…
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Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way.
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Infection easy
Manton says: We easily catch an infectious disease from one another, but no man receiveth health from anothers company. Too true. Evil communications inevitably corrupt good manners; but good communications do not so necessarily improve evil manners. We more readily learn evil than good, and we are also more forcible in communicating sin than virtue. Both as to the giving out and the receiving, the aptness lies on the wrong side. What a proof of our natural depravity! What a change must grace work in us before we shall be fully like our Lord Jesus, who was incapable of being inoculated by sin, but abundantly able to communicate goodness; for healing virtue proceeded from Him. When shall we become disseminators of holiness by our very presence? (C. H. Spurgeon.)
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