Ezekiel 23:8

8 She did not give up her whorings that she had practiced since Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and fondled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.

Ezekiel 23:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:8

Neither left she her idols brought from Egypt
Though the Israelites took in the gods of the Assyrians into their worship, they did not relinquish the golden calves set up at Dan and Bethel, in imitation of the Egyptian deities; the idolatrous worship of which they learned in Egypt, and brought from thence: for in her youth they lay with her;
the Egyptians enticed the Israelites to idolatry when among them, as soon as they began to be a people; (See Gill on Ezekiel 23:3): and they bruised the breasts of her virginity;
who before retained the pure worship of God, and was like a chaste virgin: and poured their whoredom upon her;
expressive of the numerous acts of idolatry committed together by them.

Ezekiel 23:8 In-Context

6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, mounted horsemen.

7 She bestowed her favors upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone for whom she lusted.

8 She did not give up her whorings that she had practiced since Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and fondled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.

9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.

10 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. Judgment was executed upon her, and she became a byword among women.