Ezekiel 16:29

16:29 Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, ¹  but you were not satisfied there either.

Ezekiel 22:15

22:15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. ² 

Ezekiel 28:15

28:15 You were blameless in your behavior ³  from the day you were created,

until sin was discovered in you.

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¹ tn Heb “Chaldea.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon (“Chaldeans”) and the territory from which they originated (“Chaldea”) is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon.

² sn The ultimate purpose of divine judgment is to purify the covenant community of its sins.

³ tn Heb “ways.”