Ezekiel 23:4

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Their names were Oholah, the elder, and Oholibah, her sister. They became mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Their names represent Samaria as Oholah, and Jerusalem as Oholibah.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names: Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the names{H8034} of them were Oholah{H170} the elder,{H1419} and Oholibah{H172} her sister:{H269} and they became mine, and they bare{H3205} sons{H1121} and daughters.{H1323} And as for their names,{H8034} Samaria{H8111} is Oholah,{H170} and Jerusalem{H3389} Oholibah.{H172}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the names{H8034} of them were Aholah{H170} the elder{H1419}, and Aholibah{H172} her sister{H269}: and they were mine, and they bare{H3205}{(H8799)} sons{H1121} and daughters{H1323}. Thus were their names{H8034}; Samaria{H8111} is Aholah{H170}, and Jerusalem{H3389} Aholibah{H172}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The eldest of them was called Oola, and hir yongest sister Ooliba. These two were myne, and bare sonnes and doughters. Their names were, Samaria, and that was Oola: and Ierusalem, that was Ooliba.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And the names of them were Aholah the elder, & Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sonnes and daughters: thus were their names. Samaria is Aholah, and Ierusalem Aholibah.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    The names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister, and they were mine, and they bare sonnes and daughters: thus were their names, Samaria is Aholah, and Hierusalem Aholibah.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And their names `are' Aholah the elder, And Aholibah her sister, And they are Mine, and bear sons and daughters. As to their names -- Samaria `is' Aholah, And Jerusalem `is' Aholibah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Oholah was the name of the older and Oholibah the name of her younger sister. They became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 16:8 : 8 Then I passed by you again and saw you, and behold, you were at the age for love. So I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I made my vow to you, entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
  • Ezek 16:20 : 20 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough?
  • Ezek 16:40 : 40 They will bring a crowd against you, stone you to death, and cut you to pieces with their swords.
  • John 4:22 : 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—in order that we might bear fruit for God.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now, if you will carefully listen to My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations, for the whole earth is Mine. 6 You will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.
  • 1 Kgs 8:29 : 29 'May Your eyes be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which You said, “My name shall be there,” to hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.'
  • 1 Kgs 12:20 : 20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent for him and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.
  • 1 Kgs 12:26-33 : 26 Jeroboam said to himself, "The kingdom will now likely return to the house of David. 27 If these people go up to worship at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah. 28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt. 29 He set up one in Bethel, and the other in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin; the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other. 31 Jeroboam also built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites. 32 He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. He did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And there at Bethel he installed priests for the high places he had made. 33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, he offered sacrifices on the altar he had built at Bethel. So he instituted the festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.
  • Ps 45:11-16 : 11 Listen, daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house. 12 The king will desire your beauty; bow down to him, for he is your lord. 13 The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; the wealthy among the people will seek your favor. 14 The royal daughter is glorious within; her clothing is interwoven with gold. 15 In embroidered garments she is brought to the king; her virgin companions follow behind her and are led to you. 16 They are led with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.
  • Ps 76:2 : 2 God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: 14 'This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.'
  • Jer 2:2-3 : 2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: ‘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. 3 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who tried to devour it were held guilty; disaster came upon them,’ declares the LORD.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 23:5
    85%

    5 Oholah was unfaithful to me and lusted after her lovers—the Assyrians, who were near.

  • Ezek 23:7-13
    7 verses
    81%

    7 She gave herself to them, all the elite of the Assyrians, and defiled herself with all the idols she lusted after.

    8 She did not abandon the adulteries she began in Egypt, where men slept with her in her youth, fondling her virgin breasts and pouring out their lust upon her.

    9 Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians whom she lusted after.

    10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and they carried out judgment against her.

    11 Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was even more corrupt in her lust, and her adulteries exceeded those of her sister.

    12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and officials nearby—elegantly clothed, skilled horsemen, and all young and desirable men.

    13 I saw that she too was defiled; both had followed the same corrupt path.

  • Ezek 23:43-45
    3 verses
    80%

    43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue their acts of fornication with her.’

    44 They went to her as men go to a prostitute. In the same way, they went to Oholah and Oholibah, the immoral women.

    45 But righteous men will judge them for committing adultery and shedding blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

  • Ezek 23:35-37
    3 verses
    79%

    35 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'Because you have forgotten me and thrust me behind your back, you must also bear the consequences of your lewdness and prostitution.'

    36 The LORD said to me: 'Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then confront them with their abominations.'

    37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, passing them through the fire as food for their idols.

  • Ezek 16:45-47
    3 verses
    76%

    45 You are a true daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. And you are a sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

    46 Your elder sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you. Your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to the south of you.

    47 You not only followed their ways and acted according to their detestable practices but in a very short time, you became more depraved than they were in all your ways.

  • Ezek 23:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21 So you revisited the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your breasts and caressed your young bosom.

    22 Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I am about to stir up your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side—

  • Ezek 23:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.

    3 They committed adultery in Egypt; in their youth, they acted unfaithfully. There, their breasts were fondled, and their virginity was violated.

  • Ezek 23:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to her bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. After she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

    18 When she openly displayed her prostitution and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.

    19 Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt.

  • Ezek 16:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35 Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

    36 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children you gave to them,

  • Hos 2:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 Plead with your mother, plead! For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove her adulteries from before her face and her unfaithfulness from between her breasts.

    5 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

  • Ezek 22:11
    70%

    11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • Ezek 16:50-51
    2 verses
    70%

    50 They became haughty and committed abominations before me; therefore, I removed them as I saw fit.

    51 Samaria did not sin as much as you did. You multiplied your abominations more than they did, and your actions have justified your sisters in comparison to all your abominations.

  • Ezek 16:20
    70%

    20 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough?

  • Jer 3:7-9
    3 verses
    69%

    7 I thought, 'After she has done all this, she will return to me.' But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.

    8 I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and prostituted herself.

    9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

  • Ezek 23:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30 These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

    31 You have followed in the path of your sister; therefore, I will put her cup into your hand.

  • Hos 4:13
    69%

    13 They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

  • Ezek 16:55
    69%

    55 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, and Samaria and her daughters, will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state.

  • Jer 5:7
    68%

    7 How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • Ezek 16:61
    68%

    61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.

  • Ezek 16:22
    68%

    22 In all your detestable practices and prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.

  • Exod 34:16
    68%

    16 And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

  • Hos 2:1
    68%

    1 The number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'Children of the living God.'

  • Ezek 16:17
    68%

    17 You also took the fine jewelry made of gold and silver that I had given you, and you made male idols for yourself and engaged in prostitution with them.

  • Ezek 16:30
    68%

    30 ‘How weak is your heart,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘that you do all these things, the actions of a brazen prostitute!

  • Mal 2:11
    68%

    11 Judah has been unfaithful, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which He loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Jer 11:15
    67%

    15 What right does my beloved have in my house, when she has done so many wicked schemes? Can consecrated meat remove your evil? Then you would exult!

  • Ezek 16:3
    67%

    3 and say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites—your father was an Amorite and your mother was a Hittite.’