12. She doted upon the Assyrians–governors and deputies, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
13. And I saw that she was defiled, that both [of the sisters] took one way.
14. But [Aholibah] carried her harlotries further, for she saw men pictured upon the wall, the pictures of the Chaldeans sketched in bright red pigment,
15. Girded with girdles on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, a picture of Babylonian men whose native land was Chaldea,
16. Then as soon as she saw [the sketches of] them, she doted on them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
17. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their evil desire; and when she was polluted by them, she [Jerusalem] broke the relationship and pushed them away from her in disgust.
18. So she flaunted her harlotries and exposed her nakedness, and I was disgusted and turned from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.
19. Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.