Ezekiel 23:2-4

Oholah and Oholibah

2 h "Son of man, there were i two women, the daughters of one mother. 3 j They played the whore in Egypt; j they played the whore k in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms 1 handled. 4 Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. l They became mine, and they m bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is n Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

  1. Cross References
    Ezekiel 2:1
    And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:45 - 46
    You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
  3. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:15
    But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
  4. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:15
    But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
  5. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:22
    And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
  6. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:8
    When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 23:37
    For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.
  8. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:46
    And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
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