KJV King James Version
[Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
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Ezekiel 23:6
[Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.
WEB World English Bible
who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
ASV American Standard Version
who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Clothed with blue—governors and prefects, Desirable young men all of them, Horsemen, riding on horses,
Surrounding context — Ezekiel 23
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.
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