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Ezekiel 23:20 Cross-References
Explore 4 cross-references for Ezekiel 23:20 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Ezekiel chapter 23 verse 20 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.”
Ezekiel 23:20 (KJV)
Commentary on Ezekiel 23:20
For she doted upon their paramours intensifies imagery—'paramours' suggests casual, multiple sexual partners. Whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses employs Scripture's most offensive sexual language—comparing Egyptian lovers to animals in lustful virility. This deliberately disgusting imagery forces readers to feel God's revulsion at idolatry. If we're offended by this language, we glimpse how offensive spiritual adultery is to God. He uses extreme language because we've become desensitized to sin's severity. When polite language fails to provoke rep...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Ezekiel 23:20
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“that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the covenant”
“your neighbors”
“They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.”
“whom you have borne to me”