Ezekiel 23:16

And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

Sent messengers unto them into Chaldea - (). It was she that solicited the Chaldeans, not they her. Probably the occasion was when Judah sought to strengthen herself by a Chaldean alliance against a menaced attack by Egypt (cf. ; 2 Kings 24:1). God made the object of their sinful desire the instrument of their punishment. Jehoiakim probably by a stipulation of tribute, enlisted Nebuchadnezzar against Pharaoh, whose tributary he previously had been: failing to keep his stipulation, he brought on himself Nebuchadnezzar's vengeance.