Ezekiel 23 · Verse 44

Ezekiel 23:44

Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
Ezekiel 23:44, King James Version

Ezekiel 23:44 in other translations

BSBAnd they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
WEBThey went in to her, as they go in to a prostitute. So they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women.
ASVAnd they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.
YLTAnd they come in unto her, As the coming in unto a whorish woman, So they have come in unto Aholah, And unto Aholibah--the wicked women.
DARBYAnd they went in unto her, as they go in unto a whorish woman: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah the lewd women.
BBEAnd they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.
WebsterYet they went in to her, as they go in to a woman that playeth the harlot: so they went in to Aholah and to Aholibah, the lewd women.

What does Ezekiel 23:44 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 23:36-44

36-44. A summing up of the sins of the two sisters, especially those of Judah. wilt thou judge--Wilt thou (not) judge (see on Eze 20:4)?

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Ezekiel 23:44 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיָּב֣וֹאvai.ya.Vo'and he wentH935
אֵלֶ֔יהָ'e.Lei.hainto herH413
כְּב֖וֹאke.Vo'as goesH935
אֶל\־'el-intoH413
אִשָּׁ֣ה'i.Shaha womanH802
זוֹנָ֑הzo.Naha prostituteH2181
כֵּ֣ןkensoH3651
בָּ֗אוּBa.'uthey wentH935
אֶֽל\־'el-intoH413
אָֽהֳלָה֙'o.ho.LahOholahH170
וְאֶל\־ve.'el-and intoH413
אָ֣הֳלִיבָ֔ה'o.ho.li.VahOholibahH172
אִשֹּׁ֖ת'i.Shot[the] women ofH802
הַזִּמָּֽה\׃ha.zi.Mah<the> licentiousnessH2154

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 23:44

  • Ezekiel 23:3

    And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

  • Ezekiel 23:9-13

    Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. 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. And 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. She 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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so went.
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Context

  • Ezekiel 23:43

    Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

  • Ezekiel 23:44

    Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

  • Ezekiel 23:45

    And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

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Ezekiel 23:44 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque han venido á ella como quien viene á mujer ramera: así vinieron á Aholah y á Aholibah, mujeres depravadas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et on est venu vers elle comme on vient vers une femme prostituée. Ainsi ils sont venus vers Ohola et vers Oholiba, femmes criminelles.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und man ging zu ihr ein, wie man zu einer Hure eingeht; so gingen sie ein zu Ohola und zu Oholiba, den lasterhaften Weibern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et ingressi sunt ad eam quasi ad mulierem meretricem: sic ingrediebantur ad Oollam et Oolibam, mulieres nefarias.