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"Yet she multiplied her harlotry"

Text: Ezekiel 23:19

JUDAH DID NOT REPENT

When God alienated Himself and Babylon became more abusive towards Judah, it should have returned to the Lord! That would be a sane response. But Judah showed no remorse at all.

“Yet she multiplied her harlotry
In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
For she lusted for her paramours,
Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys,
And whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth,
When the Egyptians pressed your bosom
Because of your youthful breasts.”
Ezekiel 23:19-21

1. Judah’s response.

a) She multiplied her harlotry.

b) She remembered all the wrong things.

i) She remembered the days when she was in Egypt.

ii) She had not been faithful to God even when she was in Egypt.

iii) Israel had worshipped idols in Egypt.

iv) The golden calf incident in the days of Moses was an expression of their idolatrous ways.

v) The immorality that was practised was part of that pagan worship.

2. Judah lusted.

a) For lovers (paramours).

b) She looked for any nation that could possibly help her.

c) She turned to Egypt even though there was a treaty with Babylon.

d) This tendency to look for paramours was likened to:

i) Donkeys on heat.

ii) Horses on heat.

3. Judah remembered how close Egypt was.

a) She tried to seduce Egypt to rescue her from Babylon.

b) Egypt was a waning power when Babylon was at its height of power.

c) Both Egypt and Judah suffered severe punishment under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.