Ezekiel 23:36-39

Oholah and Oholibah

36 The Lord said to me: i "Son of man, j will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations. 37 For k they have committed adultery, l and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even m offered up 1 to them for food the children whom they had borne to me. 38 Moreover, this they have done to me: n they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and o profaned my Sabbaths. 39 For when p they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day q they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, r this is what they did in my house.

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 2:1
    And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:4
    Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers.
    Ezekiel 22:2
    And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:38
    And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 22:2
    And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:20 - 21
    And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
    Ezekiel 7:23
    Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:11
    Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 20:13
    But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:37
    For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
    Ezekiel 16:20 - 21
    And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
    Ezekiel 16:36
    Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them.
  9. Cross References
    Ezekiel 44:7
    In admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.
  10. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:4
    And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name.
    Jeremiah 23:11
    Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil, declares the Lord.
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