Ezekiel 23:4
The older was named Oholah, and her sister was named Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their identities, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Note Oholah means her own tent or she worships at a tent shrine, a metaphor for Samaria as an adulteress with Assyria.
Note Oholibah means the tent is in her or she is a tent shrine, a metaphor for Jerusalem as an adulterous wife.
And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
Note Aholah: that is, His tent, or, tabernacle
Note Aholibah: that is, My tabernacle in her
Their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the elder
- Ezekiel 16:40; 1 Kings 12:20
- they were
- Ezekiel 16:8, 20; Exodus 19:5, 6; Psalm 45:11–16; Jeremiah 2:2, 3; Romans 7:4
- Aholah
- that is, His tent, or tabernacle.
- 1 Kings 12:26–33; John 4:22
- Aholibah
- that is, My tabernacle in her.
- 1 Kings 8:29; Psalm 76:2; Psalm 132:13, 14