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Ezek. 23:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyriansg her neighbors,

2 Kings 15:19• ¹⁹And Pul 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, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. (Hos. 8:9)

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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 hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
¹⁶And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who 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 which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked Jehovah 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• ³⁷behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them 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 the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. (Jer. 50:38)

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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 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 saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound (Hos. 5:13)

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Hos. 8:9‑10• ⁹For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
¹⁰Yea, because they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and in a little they shall sorrow for the burden of the king of princes. (Hos. 8:9‑10)

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Hos. 10:6• ⁶This also shall be carried to Assyria a present to the contentious king: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel be ashamed of his own counsel. (Hos. 10:6)

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Hos. 12:1• ¹Ephraim feedeth on wind and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. (Hos. 12:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

Or "instead of remaining with me."

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)