# Ezekiel 23 📖 [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Ezekiel Overview]] | [[Ezekiel 22]] | [[Ezekiel 24]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Two Sisters [[#Verse 01.]] The Lord’s message came to me:  [[#Verse 02.]] “Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.  [[#Verse 03.]] They engaged in prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they engaged in prostitution. Their breasts were squeezed there; lovers fondled their virgin nipples there.  [[#Verse 04.]] Oholah was the name of the older and Oholibah the name of her younger sister. They became mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. [[#Verse 05.]] “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors  [[#Verse 06.]] clothed in blue, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.  [[#Verse 07.]] She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired—with all their idols.  [[#Verse 08.]] She did not abandon the prostitution she had practiced in Egypt, for in her youth men went to bed with her, fondled her virgin breasts, and ravished her.  [[#Verse 09.]] Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.  [[#Verse 10.]] They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious among women, and they executed judgments against her. [[#Verse 11.]] “Her sister Oholibah watched this, but she became more corrupt in her lust than her sister had been, and her acts of prostitution were more numerous than those of her sister. [[#Verse 12.]] She lusted after the Assyrians—governors and officials, warriors in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.  [[#Verse 13.]] I saw that she was defiled; both of them followed the same path.  [[#Verse 14.]] But she increased her prostitution. She saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans carved in bright red,  [[#Verse 15.]] wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians whose native land is Chaldea.  [[#Verse 16.]] When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. [[#Verse 17.]] The Babylonians crawled into bed with her. They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she became disgusted with them. [[#Verse 18.]] When she lustfully exposed her nakedness, I was disgusted with her, just as I had been disgusted with her sister.  [[#Verse 19.]] Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.  [[#Verse 20.]] She lusted after her lovers there, whose genitals were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions.  [[#Verse 21.]] This is how you assessed the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples and squeezed your young breasts. [[#Verse 22.]] “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look here, I am about to stir up against you the lovers with whom you were disgusted; I will bring them against you from every side:  [[#Verse 23.]] the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, all of them governors and officials, officers and nobles, all of them riding on horses.  [[#Verse 24.]] They will attack you with weapons, chariots, wagons, and with a huge army; they will array themselves against you on every side with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I will assign them the task of judgment; they will punish you according to their laws.  [[#Verse 25.]] I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors will die by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.  [[#Verse 26.]] They will strip your clothes off you and take away your beautiful jewelry.  [[#Verse 27.]] So I will put an end to your obscene conduct and your prostitution that you have practiced in the land of Egypt. You will not seek their help or remember Egypt anymore. [[#Verse 28.]] “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look here, I am about to deliver you over to those whom you hate, to those with whom you were disgusted.  [[#Verse 29.]] They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct.  [[#Verse 30.]] I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.  [[#Verse 31.]] You have followed the ways of your sister, so I will place her cup of judgment in your hand.  [[#Verse 32.]] This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘You will drink your sister’s deep and wide cup; you will be scorned and derided, for it holds a great deal. [[#Verse 33.]] You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.  [[#Verse 34.]] You will drain it dry, gnaw its pieces, and tear out your breasts, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ [[#Verse 35.]] “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, you must bear now the punishment for your obscene conduct and prostitution.” [[#Verse 36.]] The Lord said to me: “Son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment on Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds!  [[#Verse 37.]] For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, they have passed through the fire as food to their idols.  [[#Verse 38.]] Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.  [[#Verse 39.]] On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house. [[#Verse 40]] “They even sent for men from far away; when the messenger arrived, those men set out. For them you bathed, painted your eyes, and decorated yourself with jewelry.  [[#Verse 41.]] You sat on a magnificent couch, with a table arranged in front of it where you placed my incense and my olive oil.  [[#Verse 42.]] The sound of a carefree crowd accompanied her, including all kinds of men; even Sabeans were brought from the desert. The sisters put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.  [[#Verse 43.]] Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’  [[#Verse 44.]] They slept with her the way someone sleeps with a prostitute. In this way they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, promiscuous women. [[#Verse 45.]] But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands. [[#Verse 46.]] “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.  [[#Verse 47.]] That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.  [[#Verse 48.]] I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct. [[#Verse 49.]] They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.” ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ###### Verse 45. ###### Verse 46. ###### Verse 47. ###### Verse 48. ###### Verse 49. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? 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