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New Revised Standard

Ezekiel 23:2

Mortal, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Idolatry;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Oholah;   Samaria, Samaritans;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Oholah and Oholibah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Nebuchadnez'zar,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Mother;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,
Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
King James Version
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
English Standard Version
"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;
New Century Version
"Human, a woman had two daughters.
Amplified Bible
"Son of man, there were two women (Israel and Judah), the daughters of one mother (the united kingdom);
World English Bible
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;
Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;
Berean Standard Bible
"Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,
Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, listen to this story about two sisters.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being! There were two women, daughters of the same mother,
Darby Translation
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, listen to this story about Samaria and Jerusalem. There were two sisters, daughters of the same mother.
George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "there were once two sisters.
Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother,
Literal Translation
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man, there were two wome, that had one mother:
American Standard Version
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
Bible in Basic English
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;
King James Version (1611)
Sonne of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man, there were two women the daughters of one mother.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:
English Revised Version
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide, Thou, sone of man, twei wymmen weren the douytris of o modir, and diden fornycacioun in Egipt;
Update Bible Version
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
New English Translation
"Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.
New King James Version
"Son of man, there were two women, The daughters of one mother.
New Living Translation
"Son of man, once there were two sisters who were daughters of the same mother.
New Life Bible
"Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man, Two women, daughters of one mother, there were;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother;
Young's Literal Translation
Two women were daughters of one mother,

Contextual Overview

1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 Mortal, there were two women, the daughters of one mother; 3 they played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; their breasts were caressed there, and their virgin bosoms were fondled. 4 Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. 5 Oholah played the whore while she was mine; she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors 6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, mounted horsemen. 7 She bestowed her favors upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone for whom she lusted. 8 She did not give up her whorings that she had practiced since Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and fondled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her. 9 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, for whom she lusted. 10 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and they killed her with the sword. Judgment was executed upon her, and she became a byword among women.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

two: Ezekiel 16:44, Ezekiel 16:46, Jeremiah 3:7-10

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:7 - sinned Isaiah 57:8 - thou lovedst Isaiah 59:12 - our transgressions Jeremiah 7:25 - the day Jeremiah 11:15 - seeing Jeremiah 13:27 - thine adulteries Hosea 12:14 - provoked

Cross-References

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent, and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron; and there he built an altar to the Lord .
Genesis 23:14
Ephron answered Abraham,
Genesis 23:15
"My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver—what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."
Genesis 23:16
Abraham agreed with Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.
Genesis 23:18
to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, in the presence of all who went in at the gate of his city.
Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 27:41
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they held there a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed a time of mourning for his father seven days.
Numbers 13:22
They went up into the Negeb, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Numbers 20:29
When all the congregation saw that Aaron had died, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, there were two women,.... Or two nations and kingdoms, the kingdom of Israel or the ten tribes, and the kingdom of Judah or the two tribes. So the Targum,

"son of man, prophesy concerning two provinces, which are as two women:''

the daughters of one mother; either Sarah the wife of Abraham, from whom they sprung; or because they were originally one kingdom and nation; so they were when they came out of Egypt, and during the times of the judges, and in the reigns of David and Solomon; but became two in the days of Rehoboam the son of Solomon, from whom ten tribes revolted, and set up a separate kingdom, with Jeroboam at the head of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of one mother - Israel and Judah were branches of the same stock.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 23:2. Son of man, there were two women — All the Hebrews were derived from one source, Abraham and Sarah; and, till the schism under Rehoboam, formed but one people: but as these ten tribes and a half separated from Judah and Benjamin, they became two distinct people under different kings; called the kingdom of Judah, and the kingdom of Israel. They are called here, because of their consanguinity, two sisters. The elder, Samaria, (for there was the seat of government for the kingdom of Israel,) was called אהלה aholah, "a tent." The younger, Judah, was called אהליבה aholibah, "my tent is in her," because the temple of God was in Jerusalem, the seat of the government of the kingdom of Judah.


 
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