Ezekiel 23:4

Oholah And Oholibah As Symbols Of God's Corrupt People

³ who acted like prostitutes in Egypt, behaving promiscuously in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin nipples caressed. ⁴ The older one was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They became Mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah represents Samaria and Oholibah represents Jerusalem. ⁵ “Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors

Aholah

Aholibah

Israel

Jerusalem

Judah

Samaria

Ezekiel 16:8

“Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of My garment over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Exodus 19:5-6

Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,

1 Kings 8:29

so that Your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,
toward the place where You said:
My name will be there,
and so that You may hear the prayer
that Your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 12:20

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

1 Kings 12:26-33

Jeroboam said to himself, “The way things are going now, the kingdom might return to the house of David.

Psalm 45:11-16

and the king will desire your beauty.
Bow down to him, for he is your lord.

Psalm 76:2

His tent is in Salem,
His dwelling place in Zion.

Psalm 132:13-14

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His home:

Jeremiah 2:2-3

“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:

I remember the loyalty of your youth,
your love as a bride—
how you followed Me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.

Ezekiel 16:20

“You even took your sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them to these images as food. Wasn’t your prostitution enough?

Ezekiel 16:40

They will bring a mob against you to stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

John 4:22

You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—that we may bear fruit for God.