Ezekiel 27:23

27:23 Haran, Kanneh, Eden, merchants from Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad were your clients.

Ezekiel 16:28

16:28 You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.

Ezekiel 23:5

23:5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was mine. ¹  She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians ²  – warriors ³ 

Ezekiel 23:9

23:9 Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians ⁴  for whom she lusted.

Ezekiel 32:22

32:22 “Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, ⁵  all of them struck down by the sword. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 23:7

23:7 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 ⁷  – with all their idols.

Ezekiel 23:12

23:12 She lusted after the Assyrians – governors and officials, warriors in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

Ezekiel 31:3

31:3 Consider Assyria, ⁸  a cedar in Lebanon, ⁹ 

with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade,

and extremely tall;

its top reached into the clouds.

Ezekiel 23:23

23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, ¹⁰  Shoa, ¹¹  and Koa, ¹²  and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, all of them governors and officials, officers and nobles, all of them riding on horses.

¹ tn Heb “while she was under me.” The expression indicates that Oholah is viewed as the Lord’s wife. See Num 5:19-20, 29.

² tn Heb “Assyria.”

³ tn The term apparently refers to Assyrian military officers; it is better construed with the description that follows. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:738.

¹ tn Heb “I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria.”

¹ tn Heb “around him his graves.” The masculine pronominal suffixes are problematic; the expression is best emended to correspond to the phrase “around her grave” in v. 23. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:219.

² tn Heb “all of them slain, the ones felled by the sword.” See as well vv. 23-24.

¹ tn Heb “lusted after.”

¹ sn Either Egypt, or the Lord compares Egypt to Assyria, which is described in vv. 3-17 through the metaphor of a majestic tree. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:185. Like Egypt, Assyria had been a great world power, but in time God brought the Assyrians down. Egypt should learn from history the lesson that no nation, no matter how powerful, can withstand the judgment of God. Rather than following the text here, some prefer to emend the proper name Assyria to a similar sounding common noun meaning “boxwood” (see Ezek 27:6), which would make a fitting parallel to “cedar of Lebanon” in the following line. In this case vv. 3-18 in their entirety refer to Egypt, not Assyria. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:121-27.

² sn Lebanon was know for its cedar trees (Judg 9:15; 1 Kgs 4:33; 5:6; 2 Kgs 14:9; Ezra 3:7; Pss 29:5; 92:12; 104:16).

¹ sn Pekod was the name of an Aramean tribe (known as Puqudu in Mesopotamian texts) that lived in the region of the Tigris River.

² sn Shoa was the name of a nomadic people (the Sutu) that lived in Mesopotamia.

³ sn Koa was the name of another Mesopotamian people group (the Qutu).