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Ezekiel 23:16-18
New Catholic Bible
Ezekiel 23:16-18
New Catholic Bible
16 as soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers[a] to them in Chaldea. 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, shared her bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. And after she had defiled herself with them, she turned away from them in disgust.
18 After she had flaunted her harlotry so openly and her nakedness was revealed, I turned from her in disgust as I had withdrawn from her sister.
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- Ezekiel 23:16 Sent messengers: the mission was perhaps sent in the time of Hezekiah, when the Assyrian threat was imminent.