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Aholibah in the Bible.

The name of an imaginary harlot, applied symbolically to Jerusalem, because she had abandoned the worship of the true God and given herself up to the idolatries of foreign nations.. The King James Version names Aholibah in 5 verses, from Ezekiel 23:4 to Ezekiel 23:44.

Aholibah’s family.

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Her family as Theographic Bible Metadata lists it; each name opens its own page.

Who Aholibah was.

My tent is in her, the name of an imaginary harlot, applied symbolically to Jerusalem, because she had abandoned the worship of the true God and given herself up to the idolatries of foreign nations. (Ezek. 23:4, 11, 22, 36, 44).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Places in Aholibah’s story.

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All 5 verses that name Aholibah.

Ezekiel 5

  • Ezekiel 23:4And 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.
  • Ezekiel 23:11And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
  • Ezekiel 23:22Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord 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;
  • Ezekiel 23:36The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;
  • Ezekiel 23:44Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

Questions about Aholibah.

Who was Aholibah in the Bible?

The name of an imaginary harlot, applied symbolically to Jerusalem, because she had abandoned the worship of the true God and given herself up to the idolatries of foreign nations.. The King James Version names Aholibah in 5 verses, from Ezekiel 23:4 to Ezekiel 23:44.

Who was Aholibah’s mother?

Mother of Aholah and Aholibah.

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