What is with some Muslims and the Book of Ezekiel, especially chapter 23? I really don’t get it. I’ve even heard some Muslims say that Ezekiel 23 is a pornographic chapter of the Bible. Seriously, they aren’t joking and yet I can’t help but laugh til my sides hurt. Calling the Bible perverse is like calling the Koran holy, the phrase is an oxymoron.
Let’s read Ezekiel 23:
1) The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
2) Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
3) And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
4) And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
5) And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
6) Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
7) Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
8) Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
9) Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
10) These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
11) And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
12) She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13) Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,
14) And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
15) Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
16) And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto 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 mind was alienated from them.
18) So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.
19) Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20) For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21) Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
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;
23) The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
24) And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
25) And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
26) They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
27) Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
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:
29) And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
30) I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
31) Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
32) Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
33) Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
34) Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
35) Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
36) The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
37) That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
38) Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
39) For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
40) And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
41) And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
42) And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
43) Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
44) Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
45) And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
46) For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
47) And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
48) Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
49) And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
So, what is Ezekiel chapter 23 about? This chapter speaks of the lewdness and whoredoms of Aholah and Aholibah. Who are Aholah and Aholibah? From this very chapter of God’s word we read that Aholah is Samaria and Aholibah is Jerusalem. And because of their evil ways, these two countries are compared to two adulteresses. And their people have turned their back on the Lord to work iniquity, worship other gods and put their trust in man to deliver them from their enemies.
Whenever God’s people and even other nations turn to follow other gods the Lord views this act as spiritual adultery. Samaria and Jerusalem went after other nations and idols and therefore their lewdness and whoredoms with other lands is why God says, “Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.”
What I find most interesting is that this chapter of the Bible is speaking figuratively about two countries and not two literal women and even if it were, God is clearly saying that the acts of these women are evil and therefore will be punished. In no way is Ezekiel chapter 23 a perverse text, no matter which way you look at it. And so, I will laugh once more and shake my head at the ignorance that is Islam.
What’s not funny is the prophet of Islam who married a six year old girl, named Aisha, and “consummated” the marriage when she was nine years old (Bukhari vol. V, no. 234, 236). Yet how do Muslims see nothing wrong with this? Is not this a wickedly perverted act from their supposed prophet of god? I shutter to think such perversion is readily accepted and excused in Islam and at the same time its proponents turn on the Bible claiming that the Bible is immoral.
This type of hypocrisy reminds me of Isaiah 5:20-21 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!”
Muslims try to call the Bible perverse but it is Islam that is wicked beyond measure. As Titus 1 says:
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Titus 1:15-16
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