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13 I saw that she had defiled herself; they both behaved the same way. 14 But Oholibah carried her depravity further, for she saw men pictured on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans (Babylonians) sketched and portrayed in vermilion (bright red pigment), 15 girded with belts on their [a]loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonian men whose native land was Chaldea.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:15 The midsection of the body between the lower ribs and the hips.

13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.(A)

14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall,(B) figures of Chaldeans[a] portrayed in red,(C) 15 with belts(D) around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea.[b]

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  1. Ezekiel 23:14 Or Babylonians
  2. Ezekiel 23:15 Or Babylonia; also in verse 16