Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Holman Bible
At the sight of them
International Standard Version
"She lusted after them when she saw them, so she sent messengers to summon them from Chaldea.
American Standard Version
And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Amplified
When she saw [the sketches of] them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
Bible in Basic English
And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.
Darby Translation
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Julia Smith Translation
And she will desire after them at the sight of her eyes, and she will send messengers to them to Chaldea.
King James 2000
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And she lusted for them {when her eyes saw them}, and she sent messengers to them [at] Chaldea.
Modern King James verseion
and she lusted after them, to the sight of her eyes, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
immediately, as soon as she saw them, she burnt in love upon them, and sent messengers for them into the land of the Chaldeans.
NET Bible
When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
New Heart English Bible
As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
The Emphasized Bible
Then lusted she after them, as soon as her eyes beheld them, - And she sent messengers unto them to Chaldea.
Webster
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
World English Bible
As soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
Youngs Literal Translation
And she doteth on them at the sight of her eyes, And sendeth messengers to them, to Chaldea.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 23:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oholah And Oholibah As Symbols Of God's Corrupt People
15 girded with belts upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them rulers to look upon, according to the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. 16 And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea. 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 soul was alienated from them.
Phrases
Cross References
Ezekiel 16:29
Thou have moreover multiplied thy whoredom to the land of traffic, to Chaldea, and yet thou were not satisfied with this.
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and h
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass, after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, Lay with me.
2 Samuel 11:2
And it came to pass at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
2 Kings 24:1
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
Job 31:1
I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?
Psalm 119:37
Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and enliven me in thy ways.
Proverbs 6:25
Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.
Ezekiel 16:17
Thou also took thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and made for thee images of men, and played the harlot with them.
Ezekiel 23:40-41
And furthermore ye have sent for men who come from far, to whom a messenger was sent. And, lo, they came, for whom thou washed thyself, painted thine eyes, and decked thyself with ornaments,
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of adultery, and unceasing sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,