King James Version
Ezekiel 23:31 in the King James Version says “Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.”
Ezekiel 23:31 · KJV
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.
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“in the way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“of thy sister”
H269a sister (used very widely [like h0251], literally and figuratively)
“Thou hast walked”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“therefore will I give”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
“her cup”
H3563a cup (as a container), often figuratively, some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye)
“into thine hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
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