Ezekiel 23:4 (KJV)

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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

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the elder. Eze 16:40 1Ki 12:20

they were. Eze 16:8 Eze 16:20 Ex 19:5 Ex 19:6 Ps 45:11-16 Jer 2:2 Jer 2:3 Ro 7:4

Aholah. that is, His tent, or tabernacle. 1Ki 12:26-33 Joh 4:22

Aholibah. that is, My tabernacle in her. 1Ki 8:29 Ps 76:2 Ps 132:13 Ps 132:14

the names.The kingdom of Israel, of which Samaria was the capital, containing ten tribes, and occupying a larger extent of country than that of Judah, is therefore called "her elder sister;" and Aholah, the name given to her, implies that the whole religious establishment in Israel was a human invention, a temple and service of their own, and not of God's appointment. Aholibah, the name given to Judah, implies that the worship established there was from God, and that His temple was truly at Jerusalem.

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