Ezekiel 23:16-18

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¹⁶When she saw these paintings, she longed to give herself to the men pictured, so she sent messengers to Chaldea^[a] to invite them to come to her. ¹⁷And they came and committed adultery with her, defiling her in the bed of love, but afterward she hated them and broke off all relations with them.^[b]

¹⁸“And I despised her, just as I despised her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to their lust.

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 23:16 so she sent messengers to Chaldea. This occurred when Hezekiah entertained the embassy from Babylon (Isaiah 38–39), also during the reign of Manasseh.
Ezekiel 23:17 and broke off all relations with them. The anti-Babylonian party in Judah looked to Egypt for help during the reigns of the last two Judean kings, Jehoiakim and Zedekiah.