Ezekiel 23:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Oholah was the name of the older and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:20

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

1 Kings 8:29

that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.

Psalm 76:2

His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree and prostituted herself there?

Jeremiah 3:7

And I thought, “After she has done all this she will return to me,” but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.

Ezekiel 16:20

You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. As if your prostitutions were not enough!

Ezekiel 16:40

They shall bring up a mob against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Ezekiel 16:46

Your big sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; your little sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

Ezekiel 16:8

I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 23:3

they prostituted themselves in Egypt; they prostituted themselves in their youth; their breasts were caressed there, and their virgin bosoms were fondled.

Ezekiel 23:36

The Lord said to me: Mortal, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds.

Ezekiel 23:44

They have gone in to her as one goes in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, wanton women.

Ezekiel 23:5

Oholah prostituted herself while she was mine; she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors

Hosea 1:3

So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

Hosea 2:7

She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, “I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.”

John 4:22

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.