As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
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As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
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And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
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And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 23:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 16:29 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.
- Matthew 5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
- Genesis 6:2 God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
- Genesis 39:7 After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
- 2 Samuel 11:2 At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
- 2 Kings 24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
- Job 31:1 “I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
- Psalms 119:37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
- Proverbs 6:25 Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 23:33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
- Ezekiel 16:17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.
- Ezekiel 23:40-41 “Furthermore you sisters have sent for men who come from far away, to whom a messenger was sent, and behold, they came; for whom you washed yourself, painted your eyes, decorated yourself with ornaments, and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.
- 2 Peter 2:14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 23:16 And as soon as she saw them…
Eze 23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Ver. 16. And as soon as she saw them with her eyes.] Here began the mischief. Ut vidi ut perii! Conciliatorem peccati oculum Talmudici nominant.
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“ Oculi sunt in amore duces. ”
Many have died of the wound in the eye.
And sent messengers unto them.] Being themselves, therefore, not long after, sent into captivity unto them, that they might have enough of them.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Saw them; the portraits of them.
Saw them; the portraits of them.
She doted upon them; like an unsatiable and most impudent adulteress, she fell into most inordinate affection for their persons on sight of their pictures.
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Sent messengers unto them; courted the love of those strangers, and wooed their embraces, sent to make alliances with them, prostituted herself to them.
Into Chaldea: though it was a long journey, troublesome and costly, all this hinders not this extravagant, lewd woman, she sends to these remote parts, and forgets her God.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And as soon as she saw them with her…
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them,.... As lustful women, on the sight of the pictures of men, fall in love with them, and are mad after them; such a vehement desire after the idols of the Chaldeans prevailed, upon seeing their images:
and sent messengers unto them in Chaldea; to make alliances with the Chaldeans, and to have their idols, and worship them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The sending of “messengers” refers to the act of…
The sending of “messengers” refers to the act of Ahaz 2Ki 16:7.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Messengers. Achaz invited the Assyrians, and imitated their altars,…
Messengers. Achaz invited the Assyrians, and imitated their altars, &c., 4 Kings xvi. 2., &c. (Calmet) --- The Chaldeans afterwards possessed the country. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain sent messengers . . . into Chaldea-- (Eze 16:29).…
sent messengers . . . into Chaldea-- (Eze 16:29). It was she that solicited the Chaldeans, not they her. Probably the occasion was when Judah sought to strengthen herself by a Chaldean alliance against a menaced attack by Egypt (compare Kg2 23:29-35; Kg2 24:1-7). God made the object of their sinful desire the instrument of their punishment. Jehoiakim, probably by a stipulation of tribute, enlisted Nebuchadnezzar against Pharaoh, whose tributary he previously had been; failing to keep his stipulation, he brought on himself Nebuchadnezzar's vengeance.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. Read: and she doted upon them after the…
16. Read: and she doted upon them after the sight of her eyes—i.e. with delight and desire (Isa_11:3).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Saw them with her eyes.—This is to be…
(16) Saw them with her eyes.—This is to be taken in a sense wide enough to include knowledge obtained in any way, as well as by actual sight. The intercourse between Judæa and Babylon was so close that many of the people had seen the Babylonians personally, while others knew of them through their report.
Sent messengers.—Ahaz “sent messengers” to Assyria (2Ki_16:7), and Hezekiah entertained ambassadors from Babylon (2Ki_20:13); but besides these, the whole history of the times implies that there must have been frequent embassies of which no special mention is made. One from Zedekiah is incidentally mentioned by Jeremiah (Jer_29:3), of which there is no record in history.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Yahweh continues his metaphor in which he speaks of the cities of Jerusalem and Samaria as if they were two prostitutes. This metaphor continues through Ezekiel 23:34. (See: Metaphor)
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her bed of lust
This refers to her bed where she slept with men and acted lustfully. AT: "her bed where she acted lustfully" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
they made her unclean with their promiscuousness
This means that they slept with the woman. AT: "they slept with her and made her unclean" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
unclean
A person who God considers spiritually unacceptable or defiled is spoken of as if the person were physically unclean. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 23:7. (See: Metaphor)
so she turned herself away from them
This is an idiom. AT: "so she rejected them" (See: Idiom)
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