And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
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Gill's Exposition
And that she increased her whoredoms,.... Added to the number of her idols, increased her idols, and even was guilty of more than her sister:
for when she saw men portrayed on the wall; of the…
Barnes' Notes
After Israel’s captivity Judah intrigued first with Assyria, then with Babylon, courting their monarchs, imitating their customs, and learning their idolatries. Pourtrayed upon the wall - The…
Adam Clarke
Men pourtrayed upon the wall - See on Eze 8:10 (note).
The prophet Hosea, in his time, observed that the two tribes retained their integrity, in a great measure, when the ten tribes had apostatized (Hos 11:12, Ephraim indeed compasses me about with lies,…
Cambridge Bible
andthat she increased Rather: And she added to her whoredoms, with full stop at Eze 23:23. It was certainly the custom in Babylonia to draw figures of men and the like upon the walls; it is not…
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