Aholibah

Role: allegorical woman · First appears: Ezekiel 23

In Ezekiel 23, God reveals Aholah as Samaria and Aholibah as Jerusalem: “Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.” Aholibah is Aholah’s sister and younger kin; they are God’s and bear sons and daughters.

At Chaldea, Aholibah sends messengers to the Babylonians, who come to her and defile her. God then raises her former lovers against her and delivers her to those she hates, who strip and expose her. God commands Ezekiel to judge Aholah and Aholibah and declare their abominations: “The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;” They are judged as adulteresses and women who shed blood, and God brings a company against them to remove and spoil them, kill their sons and daughters, and burn their houses.

Relationship record

Life events

• God reveals Aholah as Samaria and Aholibah as Jerusalem.(Ezekiel 23)
  • With: Aholah
  • “Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.”
• Aholibah sends messengers to Chaldea, and the Babylonians come and defile her.(Ezekiel 23 · 📍 Chaldea)
  • “And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom”
• God raises Aholibah’s former lovers against her for judgment.(Ezekiel 23)
  • With: God
  • “Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;”
• God delivers Aholibah to those she hates, who strip and expose her.(Ezekiel 23)
  • With: God
  • “Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:”
• God commands Ezekiel to judge Aholah and Aholibah and declare their abominations.(Ezekiel 23)
  • With: God Ezekiel Aholah
  • “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: Aholah
  • “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 Aholah
  • “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 Aholah “And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters.”
• elder kin: Aholah “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 Aholibah.) “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.