Ezekiel 23:10 Meaning
These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
Context Explained
8Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
11And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
12She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
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Related Cross References
Jeremiah 29:18
Both verses address the consequences of sin and judgment upon the people.
Isaiah 3:24
This verse similarly describes the judgment and loss of beauty due to sin.
Ezekiel 18:30
This verse emphasizes the need for repentance to avoid judgment.
Source: Ezekiel 23:10