Ezekiel 23:5-9
Oholah <0170> [Aholah.]
The Israelites, in addition to their former gross idolatries, received the impure idolatrous worship of the Assyrians, who became their neighbours by the conquest of Syria.
lusted <05689> [doted.]
Assyrians <0804> [on the.]
desirable <02531> [all of.]
bestowed ... sexual favors <08457 05414> [committed her whoredoms with them. Heb. bestowed her whoredoms upon them.]
choicest young men ... Assyria <01121 0804 04005> [the chosen men of Assyria. Heb. the choice of the children of Asshur.]
idols <01544> [with all their.]
prostitution ..................... ravished <08457> [whoredoms.]
Ezekiel 23:12-21
Assyrians ............ horses <01121 05483> [upon.]
governors <06346> [captains.]
both <08147> [that they.]
carved ......... carved <02707 02710> [pourtrayed.]
bright red <08350> [vermilion.]
belts <0232> [with girdles.]
officers <07991> [all of.]
looking like <04758> [look to.]
That is, "princes in appearance;" which seem to have been the deified men worshipped by the Chaldeans. The inhabitants of Judah, like the Israelites, connected themselves with the Assyrians, and were enamoured with their idols; and then with the Chaldeans, and followed their idols; still retaining their attachment to the Egyptians and their idolatrous rites.
saw <05869 04758> [as soon as she saw them with her eyes. Heb. at the sight of her eyes.]
sent <07971> [and sent.]
Babylonians <01121> [Babylonians. Heb. children of Babel.]
<05315> [and her.]
disgusted <03363> [alienated. Heb. loosed, or disjointed.]
exposed <01540> [discovered.]
I <05315> [then.]
increased <07235> [multiplied.]
remembering <02142> [in calling.]
