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17 And they came and committed adultery with her, defiling her in the bed of love, but afterward she hated them and broke off all relations with them.[a]

18 “And I despised her, just as I despised her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to their lust. 19-20 But that didn’t bother her. She turned to even greater prostitution, sinning with the lustful men she remembered from her youth when she was a prostitute in Egypt.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:17 and broke off all relations with them. The anti-Babylonian party in Judah looked to Egypt for help during the reigns of the last two Judean kings, Jehoiakim and Zedekiah.
  2. Ezekiel 23:19 when she was a prostitute in Egypt, i.e., during the reign of Josiah.

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