Ezekiel 23:1

Bishop's Bible

The worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying:

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The word of the Lord came to me. He said,

New Living Translation
This message came to me from the Lord :

New American Standard Bible
The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:

New English Translation
The word of the Lord came to me:

Update Bible Version
The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

Amplified Bible
The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

English Standard Version
The word of the Lord came to me:

World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

English Revised Version
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said:

American Standard Version
The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

King James Version (1611)
The word of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me saying,

New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me:

Geneva Bible (1587)
The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

George Lamsa Translation
THE word of the LORD came to me, saying,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the word of Yahweh came unto me saying,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to me:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me.

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me again:

Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

King James Version
The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayenge:

THE MESSAGE
God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. They became whores in Egypt, whores from a young age. Their breasts were fondled, their young bosoms caressed. The older sister was named Oholah, the younger was Oholibah. They were my daughters, and they gave birth to sons and daughters. "Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

New King James Version
The word of the LORD came again to me, saying:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ The worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying: ² Thou sonne of man, there were two women the daughters of one mother. ³ And they committed fornication in Egypt, they played the harlottes in their youth: there were their breastes pressed, and there they bruised the teates of their virginitie. ⁴ The names of them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister, and they were mine, and they bare sonnes and daughters: thus [were] their names, Samaria is Aholah, and Hierusalem Aholibah. ⁵ Aholah played ye harlot when she was mine, and she was set on fire with her louers the Assyrians her neighbours: ⁶ Which were clothed with blewe silke, [both] captaynes and princes, they were all pleasaunt young men, and horsemen rydyng vpon horses. ⁷ Thus she committed her whordome with them [beyng] all chosen men of Asshur, & with all on whom she doted, and defiled her selfe with all their idols. ⁸ Neither left she the fornication that she vsed with the Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her, they bruised the brestes of her maydenhead, and powred their whordome vpon her. ⁹ Wherfore I deliuered her into the handes of her louers [euen] into ye handes of the Assyrians vpon whom she doted. ¹⁰ These discouered her shame, toke her sonnes & daughters, and slue her with the sworde, an euyll name had she among women: for they had executed iudgement vpon her.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 2:23 - see Ezekiel 2:3 - a rebellious nation Ezekiel 22:2 - her abominations Hosea 1:2 - for Hosea 4:12 - gone Zechariah 5:7 - is

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word of the Lord came unto me,.... The word of prophecy, as the Targum; another prophecy, one upon the same subject, as in

Ezekiel 16:1,

saying; as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The seventh word of judgment. The allegory of Aholah and Aholibah.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXIII

The idolatries of Samaria and Jerusalem are represented in this

chapter by the bad practices of two common harlots, for which

God denounces severe judgments against them, 1-49.

See the sixteenth chapter, where the same metaphor is enlarged

upon as here, it being the prophets view to exude the utmost

detestation of the crime against which he inveighs.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXIII