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Samaria’s gate shifts from blue Assyrian splendor to a closed, stripped, abandoned entrance.
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Ezekiel 23:5-10

Samaria clothed in Assyrian allegiance

The Two Sister Cities · Ezekiel 23

Story guide: Political and religious betrayal is conveyed through civic objects without depicting sexual violence or execution.

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5Oholah played the prostitute while under me, and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians who were nearby.

6clothed in blue, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding horses.

7She lavished her prostitutions on them, all the choicest sons of Assyria; and with all those for whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

8Yet she did not abandon her prostitutions from Egypt, for in her youth they had lain with her, and they fondled her virgin breasts and poured out their prostitution upon her.

9Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria, for whom she lusted.

10They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. So she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her.

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