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15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like Babylonian officers, natives of Chaldea; 16 as soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers[a] to them in Chaldea. 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, shared her bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. And after she had defiled herself with them, she turned away from them in disgust.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:16 Sent messengers: the mission was perhaps sent in the time of Hezekiah, when the Assyrian threat was imminent.