Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such {things}? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

They were {as} fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. {Is this} of thy whoredoms a small matter, {to be...: Heb. to devour}

And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it {is} his uncleanness.

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians {her} neighbours,