• The Prostitute Sisters
    Pure Worship of Jehovah—Restored At Last!

    • The Prostitute Sisters

      In Ezekiel chapter 23, we find a stinging denunciation of God’s people for their unfaithfulness. In many ways, this chapter parallels chapter 16. Like that earlier message, chapter 23 uses the imagery of prostitution. Jerusalem is said to be the younger sister and Samaria, her older sister. Both chapters show how the younger sister came to follow the older one into prostitution but then exceeded her in wickedness and immorality. In chapter 23, Jehovah gives the two sisters’ names: Oholah is the older sister, Samaria, the capital of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel; Oholibah is the younger sister, Jerusalem, the capital of Judah.a​—Ezek. 23:1-4.

  • The Prostitute Sisters
    Pure Worship of Jehovah—Restored At Last!

    • a The names are significant. Oholah means “Her Tent [of Worship]”​—evidently an allusion to Israel’s course of setting up its own centers of worship instead of using Jehovah’s temple in Jerusalem. Oholibah, on the other hand, means “My Tent [of Worship] Is in Her.” Jerusalem was the home of Jehovah’s house of worship.