King James Version
Ezekiel 23:13 in the King James Version says “Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,”
Ezekiel 23:13 · KJV
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. she was: Heb. she corrupted her inordinate love more than, etc more than: Heb. more than the whoredoms of her sister
She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
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“Then I saw”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“that she was defiled”
H2930to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
“way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
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