Ezekiel 23:11

11 "Her sister Oholibah saw all this, but she became even worse than her sister in lust and whoring, if you can believe it.

Ezekiel 23:11 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:11

And when her sister Aholibah saw this
The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, when, they saw the idolatries the ten tribes fell into, and the destruction which came upon them for the same; instead of receiving instruction, and taking caution by all this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she;
in courting the friendship, alliance, and help of their Heathen neighbours: and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms;
guilty of more idolatries than the ten tribes, as in the times of Manasseh; see ( Jeremiah 2:28 ) .

Ezekiel 23:11 In-Context

9 "So I left her to her Assyrian lovers, for whom she was so obsessed with lust.
10 They ripped off her clothes, took away her children, and then, the final indignity, killed her. Among women her name became Shame - history's judgment on her.
11 "Her sister Oholibah saw all this, but she became even worse than her sister in lust and whoring, if you can believe it.
12 She also went crazy with lust for Assyrians: ambassadors and governors, military men smartly dressed and mounted on fine horses - the Assyrian elite.
13 And I saw that she also had become incredibly filthy. Both women followed the same path.
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