My mother was reading the bible, then she did not know how to explain this?

Question

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+23:20

Can you explain this to me, I am 11 years old.

Answer 1

Dude i haven't had time to read the bible but if that's in the bible then has problems lol.

But i think it means that her lovers are balls and that the ''genitals of the donkey are small and hard which means like strong brutal love if you know what i mean and the genitals of the horse are more soft more understanding more ''loving''. i hope i helped in a way.

Answer 2

The Bible shouldn't be read by an 11-year-old child.  There are so many bad things in that book.  Please just stick to Harry Potter and dont fill your head with that nonsense.

Answer 3

Ezekiel 23:20 (New International Version)

20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

at 11 you should not be on here  but the passage is  about  isreal  lusting after other God's  not  really about  women having s*x.

Answer 4

Haha. Yeah, any book that contains that is not something you should base your way of life on.

*looks at other answers*

Wow, people just don't get the joke, do they?

Answer 5

Its a grownup thing-ull know when your older

Answer 6

That would be confusing- especially to a kid!

Here's some info... it's a long read, though.  There's a lot more.  Email me if you'd like me to send it:  [e-mail]

The short answer to the question is sumerized in the last paragraph.  The context is how God's people were supposed to be loyal to him (as if he was their husband) but they acted like prostitutes by turning to things that disgusts Him.

"Oholibah defied the warning example in the history of her sister kingdom, Oholah. Jehovah got to see that both Oholibah and Oholah “had one way,” only that Oholibah pursued the way in a more extreme fashion. Forgetting Jehovah and her marriage-like covenant with Him, she went playing politics with that mighty military world power, Assyria. This was notoriously so in the days of King Ahaz of Jerusalem. Despite the counsel of Jehovah by the prophet Isaiah, King Ahaz called the Assyrian conqueror Tiglath-pileser to his aid against the allied kingdoms of Syria and Israel. (Isaiah 7:1-20; 2 Kings 16:5-10, 17, 18) King Hezekiah, successor to Ahaz, saw how disastrously Oholah’s courting the political favor of Assyria ended in the year 740 B.C.E., with the destruction of Samaria and its kingdom. Although King Hezekiah was delivered from the Assyrian king Sennacherib, he entertained the friendly advances made by the Babylonians. For this he was rebuked by Jehovah. (Isaiah 37:36 to 39:7; 2 Kings 19:35 to 20:18) After the Babylonians overthrew the Assyrian World Power by destroying its capital Nineveh about 632 B.C.E., this posed a serious problem for Jerusalem.

20 Four years later, in 628 B.C.E., the conquering king of Egypt put King Jehoiakim upon the throne of Jerusalem in place of his brother Jehoahaz. But in the year 620 B.C.E. the king of Babylon subjected Jehoiakim as a king tributary to Babylon. In the year 617 B.C.E. the king of Babylon installed Jehoiakim’s brother Zedekiah as king on the throne of Jerusalem. (2 Kings 23:31 to 24:18) During the reigns of these two kings the symbolic Oholibah “exercised her sensual desire more ruinously” than did her sister Oholah by courting the political favor of the Babylonian World Power. This international intercourse kept up in both cases until at last Jerusalem tired of the domination of Babylon. So “her soul began to turn away disgusted” from the Babylonians by rebellion against the king of Babylon.—2 Kings 24:1, 18-20.

21 How, though, did Jehovah feel about this spiritually adulterous course on the part of the symbolic Oholibah? This is something that her modern-day counterpart Christendom should have considered long ago. In Ezekiel 23:18-21 Jehovah tells how he felt by saying: “And she went on uncovering her acts of prostitution and uncovering her nakedness, so that my soul turned away disgusted from company with her, just as my soul had turned away disgusted from company with her sister [Oholah]. And she kept multiplying her acts of prostitution to the point of calling to mind the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt. And she kept lusting in the style of concubines belonging to those whose fleshly member is as the fleshly member of male asses and whose genital organ is as the genital organ of male horses. And you continued calling attention to the loose conduct of your youth by the pressing of your bosoms from Egypt onward, for the sake of the b*****s of your youth.”

22 Since Jehovah’s very being had turned away in disgust from company with her adulterous sister Oholah, why should not his soul turn away in disgust from company with Oholibah because of like loose conduct with the idolatrous Babylonians? Jehovah is consistent with himself and so harmonized his actions toward both sisters, Oholah and Oholibah.

23 How did Oholibah go “calling to mind the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt”? She did so by looking southward to Egypt for military aid when “her soul began to turn away disgusted” from the Babylonians by rebelling against the king of Babylon. (Ezekiel 17:7-10, 15-17) In the language Jehovah here uses, what contempt he expresses for her animalistically passionate course that was unbecoming to a wife but quite usual with a readily available concubine. He says: “And she kept lusting in the style of concubines belonging to those whose fleshly member is as the fleshly member of male asses and whose genital organ is as the genital organ of male horses.” Or, as the New English Bible of 1970 words it: “She was infatuated with their male prostitutes, whose members were like those of asses and whose seed came in floods like that of horses.”—Ezekiel 23:20, NW; NEB."

(Information taken from ""The nations shall know that I am Jehovah"- How?" published by Jehovah's Witnesses)

Answer 7

no...because the bible fairytale is not meant for 11 yr olds

Answer 8

I believe it was talking about how the Isrealites as a nation (she) turned away from her "husbandly owner" (their God Jehovah or Yahweh) and became involved in the worship of false gods.  The gods they were worshipping were the gods of the pagan nations around them and those "gods" were Baal, Molech and Ashtoreth.  Baal was represented by a "sacred pole" or a phallic symbol.  Ashtoreth was a goddess who represented female sexuality she had big b*****s, a big pregnant belly and big hips.  Molech was a fire god, a god of war, he had fire in his belly and children were offered alive in sacrifice to them while they stirred the people up with loud sexual music designed to incite their passions.

They worshipped this "trinity" by things like temple prostitution, orgies, homosexuality, and child sacrifice.

Certainly God was trying to show his people how DISGUSTING they had become to him.

They stopped worshipping God, trusting in him, and turned to the nations around them to support them.  The two "women" Oholah and Oholibah represented first the 10 tribe kingdom of Isreal and later the 2 tribe kingdom of Judah.  Neither of these were at that time trusting in their God who had led them out of Egypt, but they had begun to "prostitute" themselves to these other nations and to these false gods.  

God was clearly showing them how filthy and disgusting they had become to him.

Answer 9

That shite is in the Bible?  What page?  I'm ripping that out tonight before my boys ever see it it...what is wrong with you religious people, leaving something like that in a book children can find it?  

Answer 10

do you know what the story is talking about? i don't but that my be useful to know...good luck god bless

Answer 11

too rude to explain, but its to do with mens naughty bits.

Answer 12

It's about a harlot lusting after men with huge penises.  

Answer 13

Is that in the bible? Really?

Goodness gracious!  

Answer 14

Well, here's an alternate interpretation of that verse according to the Living Bible:

Ezekiel 23:20 -  "She turned to even greater prostitution, sinning with the lustful men she remembered from her youth when she was a prostitute in Egypt."

The two sound much different, yes?

Answer 15

Since all of the others seem to be too hung up with s*x, I'll give you the answer.

She was horny (wanting to have s*x).  She fantasized about lovers that had large penises.

Obviously written by a man.

Your mother thought it was inappropriate because Christianity likes to pretend that human beings are not sexual creatures, when in fact they are.  Her viewpoint is unrealistic and old-school.

Answer 16

thats inappropriate.  

Answer 17

It has something to do with your health science class. Do not worry, you'll get to know about it in time. All that you need to know about it is that it was talking about the kind of beasts the humans become as adults. Not all of them, however. :)

Answer 18

Thats why you are 11 dude

Answer 19

http://bible.cc/ezekiel/23-20.htm

This has it translated through the various versions.  Show her this and ask her to look it over... maybe it'll help.

Answer 20

Little Brother,

Yes, the Bible is Holy. But it's a history book for present and future generations. Just because it's in the Bible does not always mean it's a good thing to do:

This Bible verse -Ezekiel 23:20-21 is considered by many people as "inappropriate" ... Yes, it means just what it says, however, the "woman" that was being talked about - that was doing such actions [mentioned in the Bible] was a "w***e".

Some women are that way, some men are that way - but we think they are "crazy" to do such actions. Fortunately not everyone is that way.

Also, this kind of sexually activity is not something that GOD approves of. The verse is showing the difference between a good woman and a w***e.

Answer 21

she probably could but didnt want to because you were too young.

Answer 22

u have to read the whole passage in and take it in context...the Bible wasnt talkin about two real women they were or will be two cities who are full of sin and get wiped out...im not sure if its prophecy or history tho but its not being inappropriate it is using figurative language as a means to convey the abomination of those two cities sins  

Answer 23

if you are 11 years old, then you should not be on this website on your own...  

Answer 24

its about grownup things thats why she didnt....you are supposed to be 13 to come here..