Ezekiel 23:13

13 "I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.

Ezekiel 23:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:13

Then I saw that she was defiled
With idols, and the worship of them, ( Ezekiel 23:7 ) : that they took both one way;
the same way of idolatry; worshipped the same idols, lived the same course of life, were guilty of the same sin, both Israel and Judah.

Ezekiel 23:13 In-Context

11 "Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her harlotries were more than the harlotries of her sister.

12 "She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

13 "I saw that she had defiled herself; they both took the same way.

14 "So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion

15 girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "one"