Ezekiel 23:9

9 Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, to the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

Ezekiel 23:9 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:9

Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers,
&c.] To destruction; their persons, families, riches, and kingdom itself: into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted;
first into the hands of Pul, then Tiglathpileser, then Shalmaneser, all kings of Assyria, by whom they were spoiled or carried captive; by the two first in part, by the last wholly; see ( 2 Kings 15:19 2 Kings 15:29 ) ( 17:5-18 ) .

Ezekiel 23:9 In-Context

7 She sought them out to seduce them, all of them men of the highest rank of Assyria. She defiled herself by everyone she lusted after and also by all their idols.

8 But she never gave up her promiscuities with the Egyptians, who had slept with her in her girlhood and fondled her nubile breasts, and who continued to seduce her.

9 Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, to the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

10 They stripped her naked, took her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. And she became notorious among women for the punishments they enacted against her.

11 Her sister Oholibah saw it, and she proceeded to outdo her sister in her lust and in her seductions.