The Two Adulterous Sisters
Ezekiel 23:14
In 11 translations
- BSB
- But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,That is, the Babylonians
- KJV
- And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
- WEB
- “She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with red,
- ASV
- And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
- LSV
- And she adds to her whoredoms, || And she sees men carved on the wall, || Pictures of Chaldeans, carved with vermillion,
- YLT
- And she doth add unto her whoredoms, And she seeth graved men on the wall, Pictures of Chaldeans, graved with red lead,
- DBY
- And she increased her fornications; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
- DRC
- And she increased her fornications: and when she had seen men painted on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth in colours,
- GNV
- And that she encreased her fornications: for when she sawe men painted vpon the wall, the images of the Caldeans painted with vermelon,
- JPS
- And she increased her harlotries; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
- LXXE
- And she increased her fornication, and she saw men painted on the wall, likenesses of the Chaldeans painted with a pencil,
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- Leningrad Codex reads כַשְׂדִּ֔יים; read aloud (Qere) reads כַשְׂדִּ֔ים (“[the] Chaldeans”).
- Written (Ketiv): כַשְׂדִּיִּים. Read aloud (Qere): כַשְׂדִּ֔ים (“[the] Chaldeans”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַתּ֖וֹסֶף אֶל־תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ וַתֵּ֗רֶא אַנְשֵׁי֙ מְחֻקֶּ֣ה עַל־הַקִּ֔יר צַלְמֵ֣י כשדיים חֲקֻקִ֖ים בַּשָּׁשַֽׁר׃Read aloud as (qere): כַשְׂדִּ֔ים
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ προσέθετο πρὸς τὴν πορνείαν αὐτῆς, καὶ εἶδεν ἄνδρας ἐζωγραφημένους ἐπὶ τοῦ τοίχου, εἰκόνας Χαλδαίων ἐζωγραφημένους ἐν γραφίδι,
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- Ezekiel 8:10So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
- Jeremiah 22:14who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
- Isaiah 46:1Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- Jeremiah 50:2“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in…
- Ezekiel 16:29So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!
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