Ezekiel 23:19
New International Version
Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

New Living Translation
Yet she turned to even greater prostitution, remembering her youth when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

English Standard Version
Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt

Berean Standard Bible
Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

King James Bible
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

New King James Version
“Yet she multiplied her harlotry In calling to remembrance the days of her youth, When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

New American Standard Bible
Yet she multiplied her obscene practices, remembering the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.

NASB 1995
“Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

NASB 1977
“Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Amplified Bible
Yet she multiplied her depravities, remembering the days of her youth, when she was actively immoral in the land of Egypt.

Christian Standard Bible
Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet she multiplied her acts of promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she acted like a prostitute in the land of Egypt

American Standard Version
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Contemporary English Version
Oholibah didn't stop there, but became even more immoral and acted as she had back in Egypt.

English Revised Version
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
She remembered how she had been a prostitute in Egypt when she was young. So she took part in even more prostitution.

Good News Translation
She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.

International Standard Version
"Nevertheless, she became even more sexually immoral, even reminiscing about when she was young, when she kept on practicing sexual immorality in the land of Egypt.

Majority Standard Bible
Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt

NET Bible
Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

New Heart English Bible
Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

World English Bible
Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And she multiplies her whoredoms, "" To remember the days of her youth, "" When she went whoring in the land of Egypt.

Young's Literal Translation
And she multiplieth her whoredoms, To remember the days of her youth, When she went a-whoring in the land of Egypt.

Smith's Literal Translation
And she will multiply her fornications, to remember the days of her youth when she committed fornication in the land of Egypt.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she fornicated in the land of Egypt.

New American Bible
But she increased her prostitution, recalling the days of her youth when she had served as a prostitute in the land of Egypt.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And she increased her fornication and she was reminded of the days of her youth when she fornicated in the land of Egypt
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou didst multiply thy fornication, so as to call to remembrance the days of thy youth, wherein thou didst commit whoredom in Egypt,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Adultery of Oholah and Oholibah
18When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. 19Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt 20and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 3:6-10
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. / I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. / She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. ...

Hosea 2:13
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

2 Kings 17:7-18
All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. ...

Jeremiah 2:20-25
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute. / I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine? / Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. ...

Hosea 4:12-14
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

Isaiah 57:7-8
On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. / Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.

Jeremiah 13:27
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

Hosea 9:1
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

Revelation 17:1-5
Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” / And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. ...

James 4:4
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

1 Corinthians 6:15-20
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! / Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” / But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. ...

Revelation 2:20-22
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. / Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. / Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.

Romans 1:24-27
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. / For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ...

Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Peter 2:14-15
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. / They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.


Treasury of Scripture

Yet she multiplied her prostitutions, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

multiplied

Ezekiel 23:14
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

Ezekiel 16:25,29,51
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms…

in calling

Ezekiel 23:3,8,21
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 16:22
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

Ezekiel 20:7
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

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Ezekiel 23
1. The unfaithfulness of Aholah and Aholibah
23. Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers
36. The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both
45. and shows their judgments














Yet she multiplied her promiscuity
This phrase indicates a continuation and escalation of sinful behavior. The Hebrew root for "multiplied" is "רָבָה" (ravah), which conveys the idea of increasing or becoming numerous. In the context of Ezekiel, this multiplication of promiscuity symbolizes Israel's persistent idolatry and unfaithfulness to God. Historically, Israel's alliances and idol worship were seen as spiritual adultery. The use of "promiscuity" here is metaphorical, representing the nation's infidelity to God through alliances with pagan nations and their gods.

remembering the days of her youth
The phrase "remembering the days of her youth" suggests a longing or nostalgia for past behaviors. In Hebrew, "זָכַר" (zakar) means to remember or recall. This remembrance is not innocent; it is a deliberate choice to return to former sinful ways. Theologically, this reflects the human tendency to revert to old habits and sins, even after experiencing God's deliverance. It serves as a warning against the dangers of romanticizing past sins and the importance of spiritual vigilance.

when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt
This part of the verse refers to Israel's early history and spiritual infidelity. The Hebrew word for "prostituted" is "זָנָה" (zanah), which means to commit fornication or to be unfaithful. Egypt, in this context, represents a place of bondage and idolatry. Historically, Egypt was a land where Israel was enslaved, and it also symbolizes the allure of worldly power and false gods. Theologically, this serves as a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God and the spiritual bondage that results from idolatry. It underscores the need for repentance and faithfulness to God, who desires a covenant relationship with His people.

Verse 19. - Yet she multiplied her whoredoms. The disappointment and failure, however, did not lead to repentance. Foreign alliances, and with them foreign idolatries, were courted more eagerly than ever, though in a different direction. The lovers were changed, but the harlotry went on.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Yet she multiplied
וַתַּרְבֶּ֖ה (wat·tar·beh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

her promiscuity,
תַּזְנוּתֶ֑יהָ (taz·nū·ṯe·hā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8457: Harlotry, idolatry

remembering
לִזְכֹּר֙ (liz·kōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

the days
יְמֵ֣י (yə·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of her youth,
נְעוּרֶ֔יהָ (nə·‘ū·re·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5271: Youth, the state, the persons

when
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

she had prostituted herself
זָנְתָ֖ה (zā·nə·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2181: To commit adultery, to commit idolatry

in the land
בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 776: Earth, land

of Egypt
מִצְרָֽיִם׃ (miṣ·rā·yim)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa


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