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Ezekiel 23:4
Ezekiel 23:4 is verse 4 of Ezekiel chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Oholah means her own tent or she worships at a tent shrine, a metaphor for Samaria as an adulteress with Assyria.
Oholibah means the tent is in her or she is a tent shrine, a metaphor for Jerusalem as an adulterous wife.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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.
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Ezekiel 23:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,
3 and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.
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.
5 Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ezekiel 16:40They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
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Ezekiel 16:8Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:20You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
Exodus 19:5Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
Exodus 19:6And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”
Psalms 45:11and the king will desire your beauty; bow to him, for he is your lord.
Psalms 45:12The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; men of wealth will seek your favor.
Psalms 45:13All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.
Psalms 45:14In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.
Psalms 45:15They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.
Psalms 45:16Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.
Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Jeremiah 2:3Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her found themselves guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
1 Kings 12:26Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.
1 Kings 12:27If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
1 Kings 12:28After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
1 Kings 12:29One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
1 Kings 12:30And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.
1 Kings 12:31Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
1 Kings 12:32And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
1 Kings 12:33On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
John 4:22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
1 Kings 8:29May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
Psalms 76:2His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.
Psalms 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
Psalms 132:14“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.