Ezekiel Chapter 23 verse 20 Holy Bible
And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
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And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.
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and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is [as] the flesh of asses, and whose issue is [as] the issue of horses.
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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
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She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
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And she doteth on their paramours, Whose flesh `is' the flesh of asses, And the issue of horses -- their issue.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - She doted on her paramours. Commonly the word is used of a concubine (Genesis 22:24; Judges 8:31). Here it is used in scorn of the Egyptian princes whose favor Judah courted, reminding us of Homer's Ἀχαιίδες οὐκετ Ἀχαίοι, as indicating their political weakness. All that need be said of the comparison that follows is that here also Ezekiel follows in the footsteps of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 5:8). What is indicated is that Judah threw herself into the idolatrous ritual of Egypt with an almost orgiastic passion. The harlot nation returned, as it were, to her first love, and renewed the whoredoms of her youth.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) Their paramours.--The word is masculine, as indicating the abominable sins copied by the Israelites from the heathen, and asses and horses are introduced to show the intensity of lust. (Comp. Jeremiah 5:8.)
