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Ezekiel 23:48

So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Lewdness;   Oholibah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Oholah and Oholibah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lewd;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Ḳedeshah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I will put an end to depravity in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your depraved behavior.
Hebrew Names Version
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
King James Version
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
English Standard Version
Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
New American Standard Bible
'So I will eliminate outrageous conduct from the land, so that all women will take warning and not commit outrageous sin as you have done.
New Century Version
"So I will put an end to sexual sins in the land. Then all women will be warned, and they will not do the sexual sins you have done.
Amplified Bible
'Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and taught not to commit immoral acts as you have done.
World English Bible
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus will I cause wickednesse to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to doe after your wickednesse.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be chastised and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Contemporary English Version
I will get rid of sinful prostitution in this country, so that women everywhere will be warned not to act as you have.
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘Thus I will put an end to lewdness in the land, so that all women may be taught not to imitate your lewdness.
Darby Translation
And I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, and all women shall receive instruction and shall not do according to your lewdness.
Easy-to-Read Version
In this way I will remove that shame from this country, and all the other women will be warned not to do the shameful things you have done.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus will I put an end to lewdness from the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your whoredom.
Good News Translation
Throughout the land I will put a stop to immorality, as a warning to every woman not to commit adultery as they did.
Lexham English Bible
And I will cause obscene conduct to cease from the land, and all of the women will be warned, and they will not do according to your wickedness.
Literal Translation
So I will cause to cease wickedness out of the land, that all the women may be taught, even not to do according to your wickedness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus will I destroye all soch fylthynes out off the londe: that all women may lerne, not to do after youre vnclenesse.
American Standard Version
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
Bible in Basic English
And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
King James Version (1611)
Thus will I cause lewdnesse to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to doe after your lewdnesse.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus wyll I cause wickednesse to ceasse out of the lande, that all women may be taught, not to do after your wickednesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will remove ungodliness out of the land, and all the women shall be instructed, and shall not do according to their ungodliness.
English Revised Version
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal do awei greet trespas fro the lond; and alle wymmen schulen lerne, that thei do not aftir the greet trespas of hem.
Update Bible Version
Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
New English Translation
I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.
New King James Version
Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be taught not to practice your lewdness.
New Living Translation
In this way, I will put an end to lewdness and idolatry in the land, and my judgment will be a warning to all women not to follow your wicked example.
New Life Bible
So I will put an end to sex sins in the land, that all women will learn of the danger and not sin as you have done.
New Revised Standard
Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, so that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So will I make an end of lewdness out of the land,- And all women shall be disciplined, and shall not do according to your lewdness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.
Revised Standard Version
Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.
Young's Literal Translation
And I have caused wickedness to cease from the land, And instructed have been all the women, And they do not according to your wickedness.
THE MESSAGE
"‘I'll put an end to sluttish sex in this country so that all women will be well warned and not copy you. You'll pay the price for all your obsessive sex. You'll pay in full for your promiscuous affairs with idols. And you'll realize that I am God , the Master.'"

Contextual Overview

36Then the LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. 37For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; they have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols. 38They have also done to Me this: On that very same day they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths. 39On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, this they did inside My house. 40Furthermore, they sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry. 41You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil. 42The sound of a carefree crowd accompanied her. Sabeans were brought in from the desert along with men from the rabble, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your head. 43Then I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: 'Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!' 44And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women. 45But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I cause: Ezekiel 23:27, Ezekiel 6:6, Ezekiel 22:15, Ezekiel 36:25, Micah 5:11-14, Zephaniah 1:3

that: Ezekiel 5:15, Ezekiel 16:41, Deuteronomy 13:11, Isaiah 26:9, 1 Corinthians 10:6-11, 2 Peter 2:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 10:15 - seek Ezekiel 23:10 - famous Ezekiel 24:11 - that the filthiness Ezekiel 28:17 - I will lay

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus will I cause to cease lewdness out of the land,.... There being no opportunity for it, nor any to commit it; what were not destroyed by famine, sword, and pestilence, during the siege, were carried captive; and, when they returned, were never more given to idolatry; see Ezekiel 23:27:

that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness; that is, that all provinces, as the Targum, all kingdoms; states, churches, and people, hearing and reading the judgments of God on this people for their idolatry, may learn to shun it; it is even an instruction to us, at this distance, not to commit idolatry, as they did, 1 Corinthians 10:7. The church of Rome ought to observe this.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The judgment to be executed by the hands of their allies.

Ezekiel 23:45

The righteous men - Or, righteous men. The allies are so called as the instruments of God’s righteous judgments.

Ezekiel 23:48

To cease - Because they are stricken and consumed. Compare marginal reference.

All women - i. e., all countries.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 23:48. Thus will I cause lewdness to ceaseIdolatry; and from that time to the present day the Jews never relapsed into idolatry.


 
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