Ezekiel 23:3

Easy To Read Version

They became prostitutes {\cf2\super [179]} in Egypt while they were still young girls. In Egypt, they first made love and let men touch their nipples and hold their young breasts.

Cross References

Jeremiah 3:9

Judah did not care that she was acting like a prostitute. So she made her country ‘dirty.’ She did the sin of adultery by worshiping idols made out of stone and wood.

Ezekiel 16:15

\{God said,\} “But you began to trust in your beauty. You used the good name you had and became unfaithful to me. You acted like a prostitute {\cf2\super [121]} with every man that passed by. You gave yourself to them all!

Ezekiel 16:22

You left me and did all those terrible things. And you never remembered the time when you were young. You did not remember that you were naked and kicking in blood \{when I found you\}.

Ezekiel 20:7

“I told the family of Israel to throw away their horrible idols. I told them not to become filthy with those filthy statues from Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 20:8

But they turned against me and refused to listen to me. They did not throw away their horrible idols. They did not leave their filthy statues in Egypt. So I (God) decided to destroy them in Egypt—to let them feel the full force of my anger.

Ezekiel 23:19

Again and again Oholibah was unfaithful to me. And then she remembered the love affair she had as a young girl in Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:21

“Oholibah, {\cf2\super [187]} you dreamed of those times when you were young; when your lover touched your nipples and held your young breasts.

Ezekiel 23:34

You will drink the poison in that cup.\par You will drink it to the last drop.\par You will throw down the glass\par and break it to pieces.\par And you will tear at your breasts\par from the pain.\par This will happen because\par I am the Lord and Master.\par And I said these things.\par

Ezekiel 23:4

The older daughter was named Oholah. {\cf2\super [180]} And her sister was named Oholibah. {\cf2\super [181]} Those sisters became my wives. And we had children. (Oholah is really Samaria. And Oholibah is really Jerusalem.)

Ezekiel 23:43

Then I spoke to one of the women who was worn out from her sexual sins. I told her, ‘Will they continue to do sexual sins with her, and she with them?’

Ezekiel 23:8

Besides that, she never stopped her love affair with Egypt. Egypt made love to her when she was a young girl. Egypt was the first lover to touch her young breasts. Egypt poured his untrue love on her.

Hosea 1:2

This was the Lord’s first message to Hosea. The Lord said, “Go, marry a prostitute {\cf2\super [1]} that has had children as a result of her prostitution. Why? Because the people in this country have acted like prostitutes—they have been unfaithful to the Lord.”

Hosea 2:15

There I will give her fields of grapes. I will give her Achor Valley as a doorway of hope. Then she will answer like the time she came out of the land of Egypt.”

Leviticus 17:7

They must not offer any more sacrifices to their ‘goat idols’! They have chased after those other gods. In that way, they have acted like prostitutes. [308] These rules will continue forever!

Deuteronomy 29:16

You remember how we lived in the land of Egypt. And you remember how we traveled through the countries that were on our way here.

Joshua 24:14

Then Joshua said to the people, “Now you have heard the Lord’s words. So you must respect the Lord and truly serve him. Throw away the false gods that your ancestors worshiped. That was something that happened a long time ago on the other side of the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Now you must serve only the Lord.

Revelation 11:8

The bodies of the two witnesses will lie in the street of the great city. This city is named Sodom {\cf2\super [84]} and Egypt. These names for the city have a special meaning. This is the city where the Lord was killed.