Ezekiel 23:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When she saw them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.

Genesis 39:7

And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.

2 Kings 24:1

In his days King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up; Jehoiakim became his servant for three years, then turned and rebelled against him.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, could I look upon a virgin?

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; be gracious to me according to your word.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,

Isaiah 57:9

You journeyed to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far away and sent them down to Sheol.

Ezekiel 16:17

You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and my silver that I had given you and made for yourself male images and with them prostituted yourself,

Ezekiel 16:29

You multiplied your prostitution with Chaldea, the land of merchants, and even with this you were not satisfied.

Ezekiel 23:15

with belts around their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers—a picture of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.

Ezekiel 23:20

and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!