Ezekiel 23:13 meaning and explanation

And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.

Ezekiel 23:13, Berean Standard Bible

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Ezekiel 23 is a prophetic allegory in which God, speaking through the prophet, portrays Samaria (Oholah) and Jerusalem (Oholibah) as sisters who became his own but then pursued foreign nations and their idols. Verse 13 pauses the story to observe that Oholibah, the southern kingdom, watched her sister's ruin yet defiled herself in the same way.

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