23:1The word of the LORD
came again unto me, saying,
(23:1-49)
Two sisters (Yahweh's wives, Aholah and Aholibah)
committed "whoredoms" by pressing their breasts and bruising "the teats of their
virginity." As a punishment, one sister's nakedness was discovered, her
children were taken from her, and she was killed by the sword. But the fate of
the surviving sister was even worse. Her nose and ears were cut off, she was
made to "pluck off" her own breasts, and then after being raped and
mutilated, she is stoned to death.
(23:1-2) "The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying ... there were two women."
(23:3) "They committed whoredoms in their youth ... their breasts pressed ... they bruised the teats of their virginity."
(23:5) "Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers."
23:2
Son of man, there were
two women, the daughters of one mother:
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And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed,
and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
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And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and
they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names;
Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
23:5
And Aholah played the
harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians
her neighbours,
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Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable
young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
23:7Thus 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.
(23:7)"Thus she committed her whoredoms with them ... with all their idols she defiled herself."
23:8
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.
(23:8) "In her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her."
23:9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand
of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
(23:9) "Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand
of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted."
23:10These discovered her nakedness: they
took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and
she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
(23:10) "These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword."
(23:11) "Her sister Aholibah ... was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and
in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms."
23:11And when her sister
Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and
in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
23:12
She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed
most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young
men.
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Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
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And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
(23:14) "She increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans."
23:15
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their
heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians
of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
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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.
23:17And the Babylonians came
to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom,
and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
(23:17) "The Babylonians came
to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom,
and she was polluted with them."
(23:18-19) "So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness ... she multiplied her
whoredoms."
23:18So she discovered her
whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from
her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
23:19Yet she multiplied her
whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she
had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
23:20For she doted upon
their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is
like the issue of horses.
(23:21) "The lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the
Egyptians for the paps of thy youth."
(23:22) "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee ... and I will bring them against thee on
every side."
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Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the
Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
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Therefore, O Aholibah,
thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee,
from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every
side;
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The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all
the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and
rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
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And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and
with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield
and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall
judge thee according to their judgments.
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And I will set my
jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they
shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by
the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall
be devoured by the fire.
(23:25) "I will set my
jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant
shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire." What the Bible says about amputation
(23:26) "They shall also strip
thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels."
23:26They shall also strip
thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
23:27
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought
from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them,
nor remember Egypt any more.
23:28
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou
hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
(23:28-29) "I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest ... And they shall deal
with thee hatefully."
(23:29) "They ... shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy
whoredoms."
(23:30) "I will do these things
unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols."
(23:31) "Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand."
(23:32) "Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large."
(23:33) "Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria."
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And they shall deal
with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave
thee naked and bare:
and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness
and thy whoredoms.
23:30I will do these things
unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because
thou art polluted with their idols.
23:31Thou hast walked in the
way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
23:32Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be
laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
23:33Thou shalt be filled
with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation,
with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
23:34Thou shalt even
drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck
off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
(23:34a) " Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out."
(23:35) "Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back,
therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms."
23:35
Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy
back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
23:36
The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and
Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
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That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with
their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons,
whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
(23:37) "With their idols have they committed adultery."
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Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in
the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
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For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the
same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in
the midst of mine house.
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And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a
messenger was sent; and, lo,they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and
deckedst thyself with ornaments,
(23:40-41) "They came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and
deckedst thyself with ornaments, And satest upon a stately bed."
23:41And satest upon a
stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set
mine incense and mine oil.
23:42
And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of
the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put
bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
23:43Then said I unto her
that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she
with them?
(23:43) "Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?"
(23:44) "They went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto
Aholibah, the lewd women."
(23:45) "The righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women
that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands." Has there ever been a righteous person?
(23:46-47) "For thus saith the Lord GOD ... The company shall
stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay
their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire."
(23:48) "Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness."
(23:49) "And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: And ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD."
When God forces you to pluck off your own breasts (v.34), you'll know for sure that God is the Lord.
23:44Yet they went in
unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went
they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
23:45And the righteous men,
they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner
of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in
their hands.
23:46For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will
give them to be removed and spoiled.
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And the company shall
stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay
their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
23:48Thus will I
cause lewdness to cease out of the land,that all women may be taught not to do after
your lewdness.
23:49And they shall
recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your
idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
