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Oholah and Oholibah (or: Aholah and Aholibah) are pejorative names given by the prophet Ezekiel to the kingdom of Israel and Judah, respectively. They appear in the Book of Ezekiel, chapter 23.


There is a pun in these names in the Hebrew. Oholah means "her tent", and Oholibah means "my tent is in her". Ezekiel's rhetoric portrays Oholah and Oholibah, or Samaria and Jerusalem, as the daughters of one mother. Both are said to be "brides of God", and both are guilty of idolatry and of religious and political alliances with Gentile nations. These kingdoms are described as prostitutes and adulteresses, given up to the abominations and idolatries of the Egyptians and Assyrians. Because of Oholah's crimes, she was carried away captive, and ceased to be a kingdom. (Comp. Ps. 78:67-69; 1 Kings 12:25-33; 2 Chr. 11:13-16.)


The Hebrew prophets frequently compared the sin of idolatry to the sin of adultery, in a frequently reappearing rhetorical figure. Ezekiel's rhetoric directed against these two allegorical figures is more vivid than most:

For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses,
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians, for the paps of thy youth.

(Ezekiel 23:20-21)


A very similar and equally vivid allegory is directed at the city of Jerusalem itself in Ezekiel 16.




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Aholah (or Oholah), from the Hebrew (pronounced) aw-hol-aw, meaning in her tent (used in the Bible with the meaning her idolatrous sanctuary i.e.
Aholah was the kingdom of Israel and Aholibah was the kingdom of Judah.
Aholah is described by how the northern kingdom of Israel at first committed political and religious adultery with the Assyrians before they conquered and took them away, making them "the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel" (see The Galilee Captivity).
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