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Ezekiel 23

Ezek. 23:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Aholah
'Oholah (Hebrew #170)
from 168; her tent (i.e. idolatrous sanctuary); Oholah, a symbol. name for Samaria
KJV usage: Aholah.
Pronounce: o-hol-aw'
Origin: in form a feminine of 168, but in fact for .Oholahh {o-hol-aw'}
played the harlot
zanah (Hebrew #2181)
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Pronounce: zaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton)
when she was mine
tachath (Hebrew #8478)
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.
KJV usage: as, beneath, X flat, in(-stead), (same) place (where...is), room, for...sake, stead of, under, X unto, X when...was mine, whereas, (where-)fore, with.
Pronounce: takh'-ath
Origin: from the same as 8430
; and she doted
`agab (Hebrew #5689)
to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually)
KJV usage: dote, lover.
Pronounce: aw-gab'
Origin: a primitive root
on her lovers
'ahab (Hebrew #157)
a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV usage: (be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Pronounce: aw-hab'
Origin: or raheb {aw-habe'}
, on the Assyrians
'Ashshuwr (Hebrew #804)
apparently from 833 (in the sense of successful); Ashshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e. Assyria), its region and its empire
KJV usage: Asshur, Assur, Assyria, Assyrians. See 838.
Pronounce: ash-shoor'
Origin: or iAshshur {ash-shoor'}
g her neighbors
qarowb (Hebrew #7138)
from 7126; near (in place, kindred or time)
KJV usage: allied, approach, at hand, + any of kin, kinsfold(-sman), (that is) near (of kin), neighbour, (that is) next, (them that come) nigh (at hand), more ready, short(-ly).
Pronounce: kaw-robe'
Origin: or qarob {kaw-robe'}
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2 Kings 15:19• 19Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to establish the kingdom in his hand. (2 Kings 15:19)
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2 Kings 16:7• 7And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who have risen up against me. (2 Kings 16:7)
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2 Kings 17:3• 3Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant, and tendered him presents. (2 Kings 17:3)
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Hos. 8:9• 9For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. (Hos. 8:9)

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Aholah,
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Harlot

Cross References

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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.
1 Kings 14:9,16• 9but thou hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
 16And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, wherewith he has sinned, and made Israel to sin. (1 Kings 14:9,16)
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1 Kings 15:26,30• 26And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel sin.
 30because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin; by his provocation with which he provoked Jehovah the God of Israel to anger. (1 Kings 15:26,30)
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1 Kings 16:31‑32• 31And it came to pass, as if it was a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshipped him.
 32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. (1 Kings 16:31‑32)
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1 Kings 21:26• 26And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel.) (1 Kings 21:26)
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2 Kings 17:7‑18• 7And so it was, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods;
 8and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
 9And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city.
 10And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
 11and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
 12and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.
 13And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.
 14But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God.
 15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
 16And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;
 17and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
 18Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there remained but the tribe of Judah only. (2 Kings 17:7‑18)
doted.
Ezek. 23:7,9,12,16,20• 7And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
 9Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted.
 12She lusted after the children of Asshur her neighbours, governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them attractive young men.
 16And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
 20and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is as the issue of horses. (Ezek. 23:7,9,12,16,20)
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Ezek. 16:37• 37therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all that thou hast loved, with all that thou hast hated,--I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. (Ezek. 16:37)
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Jer. 50:38• 38a drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad after frightful idols. (Jer. 50:38)
on the.
Ezek. 16:28• 28And thou didst commit fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou didst commit fornication with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. (Ezek. 16:28)
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2 Kings 15:19• 19Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to establish the kingdom in his hand. (2 Kings 15:19)
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2 Kings 16:7• 7And Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who have risen up against me. (2 Kings 16:7)
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2 Kings 17:3• 3Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant, and tendered him presents. (2 Kings 17:3)
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Hos. 5:13• 13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sore, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb; but he was unable to heal you, nor hath he removed your sore. (Hos. 5:13)
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Hos. 8:9‑10• 9For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
 10Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes. (Hos. 8:9‑10)
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Hos. 10:6• 6Yea, it shall be carried unto Assyria as a present for king Jareb: Ephraim shall be seized with shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. (Hos. 10:6)
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Hos. 12:1• 1Ephraim feedeth on wind, and pursueth after the east wind: all day long he multiplieth lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt. (Hos. 12:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Oholah played the harlot when she was minec; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbours,

JND Translation Notes

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Or "instead of remaining with me."