Aholah

Role: allegorical woman · First appears: Ezekiel 23

In Ezekiel 23, Aholah is identified as Samaria, while Aholibah is identified as Jerusalem; the two are sisters, with Aholah the elder. “Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.”

God delivers Aholah into the hands of those she desired, and her children and she are killed. God then commands Ezekiel to judge Aholah and Aholibah and declare their abominations, and they are judged as adulteresses and women who shed blood. A company is brought against them to remove and spoil them; their sons and daughters are slain, and their houses are burned.

Relationship record

Life events

• God reveals Aholah as Samaria and Aholibah as Jerusalem.(Ezekiel 23)
  • With: Aholibah
  • “Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.”
• God delivers Aholah into the hands of the Assyrians, who kill her children and her.(Ezekiel 23)
  • With: God
  • “Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.”
• God commands Ezekiel to judge Aholah and Aholibah and declare their abominations.(Ezekiel 23)
  • With: God Ezekiel Aholibah
  • “The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;”
• Aholah and Aholibah are judged as adulteresses and women who shed blood.(Ezekiel 23)
  • With: Aholibah
  • “And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood;”
• God brings a company against them to remove and spoil them, killing their children and burning their houses.(Ezekiel 23)
  • With: God Aholibah
  • “I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.”

Ezekiel 23

• siblings with Aholibah “And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters.”
• younger kin: Aholibah “And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters.”
• judge: Ezekiel (Ezekiel is commanded to judge Aholah.) “The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;”

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Extracted from the original text of The Prophets. Made with Rho MD.