EZEKIEL 23

THE INFIDELITY OF SAMARIA + JERUSALEM

Through Ezekiel, God shares a story or parable of two sisters named Oholah and Oholibah. Ohalah, the older sister, represents Samaria and Oholibah represents Jerusalem.

These two sisters prostitute themselves and lust after idols. Their promiscuity shows how Samaria and Jerusalem turned away from God and worshiped false idols, leading to their captivity under Assyria and Babylon.

Jerusalem and Samaria’s lust and idolatry is expressed in a way that shows physical or sexual defilement to highlight the spiritual infidelity and impurity they have committed.