King James Version
Ezekiel 23:30 in the King James Version says “I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.”
Ezekiel 23:30 · KJV
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“these things unto thee because thou hast gone a whoring”
H2181to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (
“after”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
“the heathen”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“and because thou art polluted”
H2930to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
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