Ezekiel 23:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The elder

Ezekiel 16:40

1 Kings 12:20

They were

Romans 7:4

Aholibah

1 Kings 8:29

Psalm 76:2

Psalm 132:13

Bible References

The elder

And they will bring up against you a crowd, and they will stone you with stones, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords.

It happened that just when all of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all of Israel. Not one [followed] after the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

They were

" 'And I passed by you, and I saw you, and look, {your time of lovemaking had come}, and [so] I spread out my hem over you, and I covered your nakedness, and I swore to you, and I entered into a covenant with you,' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, 'and {you became mine}.

And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, {for all the earth is mine},

Let the king desire your beauty. Because he [is] your lord, therefore bow down to him.

"Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, {saying}, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I remember [concerning] you the loyal love of your childhood, the love of your betrothal-time, your going after me in the desert, in [the] land not sown.

So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Aholibah

so that your eyes [will] be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, 'My name will be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.

His den has been in Salem, his lair in Zion.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.