Ezekiel 23:14

And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

She saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion - the special colour of the Chaldeans, as purple was of the Assyrians. In striking agreement with this verse is the fact that the Assyrian sculptures lately discovered by Layard have painted and coloured bas-reliefs, red, blue, and black, on the walls of the palaces. The Jews (for instance Jehoiakim, , "I will build me a wide house ... painted with vermilion") copied these (cf. ).