Ez 23:36-49

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Judgement on the two sisters (Eze 23:36-49)

The prophet links the two kingdoms for his summary of God’s judgment on them. Both kingdoms had copied the religious practices of their treaty partners, even to the extent of offering their children as blood sacrifices to foreign gods. They deliberately broke God’s law and defiled his temple (Eze 23:36-39).

Both kingdoms acted like prostitutes, enticing foreign nations so that they could join with them in unions that were immoral and ungodly (Eze 23:40-41).

These foreign nations are likened to pleasure-seeking men from the desert who bring jewellery and ornaments to pay the prostitutes for their services (Eze 23:42-44).

As righteous judges sentence prostitutes to a fitting punishment, so God will now judge Judah (Eze 23:45).

As an adulteress is stoned to death and her property burnt, so will Jerusalem and her people be destroyed (Eze 23:46-49).