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Eze 23:17 — And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Babylonians		Heb. children of Babel. Gen 10:10; Gen 11:9
and her		Eze 23:22,28; Eze 16:37; 2Sa 13:15
alienated		Heb. loosed, or disjointed.

Correlating Passages

Babylonians

	Gen 10:10	And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
	Gen 11:9	Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

and her

	Eze 23:22	Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
	Eze 23:28	For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand [of them] whom thou hatest, into the hand [of them] from whom thy mind is alienated:
	Eze 16:37	Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
	2Sa 13:15	Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her [was] greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

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Scott, Thomas. "Ezekiel 23:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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