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We can note here that the “blotting out” does not happen when an Israelite
woman goes with certain foreign lovers, as it does with others. In the Books of
Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Lamentations, and Hosea, there are references to Israel
(symbolized as a woman) as having many “lovers”.

1. Notice Hosea 1:2-9.

2. What are we told in Ezekiel 23:7?

COMMENT: Israel played the part of a Harlot woman (Book of Hosea), BUT
YEHOVAH GOD TAKES HER BACK AGAIN. Two questions arise:

(a) Are these figurative of Israelites worshipping “Ba’al”?

(b) Are they of literal races, and if so, then what races were these lovers of”?

In this lesson, it is the latter we need to look at. Seven times the lovers are

described as being “Assyrians”.

3. To whom does Ezekiel 23:22 expands this to include these lovers as be-
ing?

COMMENT: “The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and
Koa”. Looking into these words, we can see that all of these relate to one par-
ticular area that is the area from which Abraham originated.

4. Further to this Assyrians are described as being what? Ezekiel 23:5, 12.

COMMENT: “Neighbors” -- a word that is sometimes translated as “kin” or
“kinsmen”.

5. What does Ezekiel 16:26 also include?

COMMENT: The Egyptians (of Hebrew origin) as “neighbors”. The word “As-
syrian” comes from the name of the second son of Shem. There are many dif-
ficulties in matters of identification, for example, Yadi in Assyrian terminology
meant Judah. The Assyrians referred to a Yadi in the northwest of Syria as
well as Yadi of Judah in the South. An Assyrian inscription mentions Azaryah
of Yadi campaigning in the north. Azaryah (also known as Uziah) was a king
of Judah. Regarding Azaryah of Yadi he was contemporary with Jeroboam of
Northern Israel and in alliance with him. Jeroboam was described as recon-
quering Hamath that belonged (previously) to Judah. Hamath as a geograph-
ical region (and not just a city) encompassed Yadi. It would stand to reason
that Jeroboam reconquered Yadi in the north and returned it to the control of

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