Ezekiel 23:7
“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.”
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
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.
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.
Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
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Cross-References
“And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,”
“Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.”
“But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.”
“I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.”
“The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.”