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11 “But when Oholibah (Jerusalem) saw what had happened to her sister, she went right ahead in the same way and sinned even more than her sister. 12 She fawned over her Assyrian neighbors,[a] those handsome young men on fine steeds, those army officers in handsome uniforms—all of them desirable. 13 I saw the way she was going, following right along behind her older sister.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 23:12 She fawned over her Assyrian neighbors, i.e., when Ahaz paid “protection money” to Tiglath-pileser II (2 Kings 16:7-8).

11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this,(A) yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister.(B) 12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.(C) 13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.(D)

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