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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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