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Jerusalem’s empty state chamber fills with foreign portraits, textiles, messengers, and idols.
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Ezekiel 23:11-21

Jerusalem repeats and exceeds the pattern

The Two Sister Cities · Ezekiel 23

Story guide: The chapter’s explicit anatomy is not visualized; escalating objects disclose escalating compromise.

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11When her sister Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than her sister, and in her prostitutions more than the prostitutions of her sister.

12She lusted after the sons of Assyria—governors and officials, clothed in full attire, horsemen riding horses, all of them desirable young men.

13And I saw that she had become unclean; both of them followed the same way.

14Then she added to her acts of prostitution, and she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,

15with belts fastened at their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, Chaldeans, the land of their birth.

16At the sight of her eyes, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

17Then the sons of Babylon came to her, to the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution; and she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.

18She uncovered her prostitutions and uncovered her nakedness; then my soul was repulsed by her, just as my soul had been repulsed by her sister.

19Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.

20She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh was like the flesh of donkeys, and whose emission was like the emission of horses.

21Thus you revisited the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt they fondled your breasts, the breasts of your youth.

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