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Ezekiel 23:5

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And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

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  1. Ezekiel 23:3

    And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

  2. Ezekiel 23:4

    And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

  3. Ezekiel 23:6

    Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

  4. Ezekiel 23:7

    Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.