King James Version
Ezekiel 23:21 in the King James Version says “Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy ...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.”
Ezekiel 23:21 · KJV
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
The Babylonians , and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
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“Thus thou calledst to remembrance”
H6485to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“of thy youth”
H5271(only in plural collective or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“of thy youth”
H5271(only in plural collective or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
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