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Ezekiel 23:48

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

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 48

This long chapter (as before ch. 16 and 20) is a history of the apostasies of God's people from him and the aggravations of those apostasies under the similitude of corporal whoredom and adultery. Here the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the ten tribes and the two, with their capital cities, Samaria and Jerusalem, are considered distinctly. Here is, I. The apostasy of Israel and Samaria from God (Eze 23:1-8) and their ruin for it (Eze 23:9, Eze 23:10). II. The apostasy of Judah and Jerusalem from God (Eze 23:11-21) and sentence passed upon them, that they shall in like manner be destroyed for it (Eze 23:22-35). III. The joint wickedness of them both together (Eze 23:36-44) and the joint ruin of them both (Eze 23:45-49). And all that is written for warning against the sins of idolatry, and confidence in an arm of flesh, and sinful leagues and confederacies with wicked people (which are the sins here meant by committing whoredom), is that others may hear and fear, and not sin after the similitude of the transgressions of Israel and Judah.

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Strong's Concordancev. 48

זִמָּה (zimmâh, H2154) — a plan, especially a bad one שָׁבַת (shâbath, H7673) — to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative,… אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, H776) — the earth (at large, or partitively a land) אִשָּׁה (ʼishshâh, H802) — a woman יָסַר (yâçar, H3256) — to chastise, literally (with blows) or figuratively (with words); hence, to instruct עָשָׂה (ʻâsâh, H6213) — to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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Ezekiel 23:27rank 3

So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’

Ezekiel 6:6rank 3

Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

Ezekiel 16:41rank 3

Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.

II Peter 2:6rank 3

if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

Ezekiel 22:15rank 2

I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.

Zephaniah 1:3rank 2

“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 26:9rank 2

My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

Deuteronomy 13:11rank 2

Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.

Ezekiel 36:25rank 2

I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

Ezekiel 5:15rank 2

So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.

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