Ezekiel 16:29

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“So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!”

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BSBPD

“So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou hast moreover multiplied thy whoredom unto the land of traffic, unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms On the land of Canaan--toward Chaldea, And even with this thou hast not been satisfied.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 16:29 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Judges 2:12Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,
  2. 2 Kings 21:9But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  3. Jeremiah 3:1“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
  4. Ezekiel 13:14I will tear down the wall you whitewashed and level it to the ground, so that its foundation is exposed. The city will fall, and you will be destroyed within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  5. Ezekiel 23:14But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

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