Ezekiel 23:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Oholah was the name of the elder 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

And 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 none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

1 Kings 8:29

that thy eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which thou hast said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that thou mayest hearken to the prayer which thy servant offers 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 there played the harlot?

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

And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter

Ezekiel 16:40

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

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.

Ezekiel 16:8

“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 23:3

they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.

Ezekiel 23:36

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

Ezekiel 23:44

For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a harlot. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah to commit lewdness.

Ezekiel 23:5

“Oholah played the harlot while she was mine; and she doted on her lovers the Assyrians,

Hosea 1:3

So he went and took Gomer the 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

Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.