Ezekiel 23

Ezekiel shared another parable from God:

Two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, had committed harlotry.

Oholah was Samaria of the northern kingdom and Oholibah was Judah/Jerusalem of the southern kingdom. Oholah lusted after the Assyrians; therefore, God delivered her to them, and they executed God's judgment over them. 

Oholibah also coveted after the idols of the neighboring Gentiles; therefore God brought the Babylonians against her because they had forgotten their God. 

God commanded Ezekiel to declare the abominations of the two kingdoms, for they had "committed adultery with their idols and even sacrificed their sons (for their idols), passing them through the fire, to devour them." They had done this to the Lord and defiled His sanctuary.

Therefore, an assembly will come up against them and give them up to judgment with stones and swords. God will put an end to the lewdness and then they shall know that He is the Lord. 

COMMENTARY

Again, God gave Ezekiel another parable to give to His people. Two sisters were no longer virgins but had become harlots.

When God said "My tent is in her (Oholibah)," He meant the temple of Solomon, in Jerusalem, where the people approached God. The people of the north would travel to the temple in Jerusalem in the south to  worship and sacrifice.

But the northern kingdom had rebelled and separated from the southern part of Israel. Jeroboam erected two calves for worship (one in Bethel and one in Samaria) to keep the people from going to worship in Jerusalem. That is what was meant by "her own tent (Oholah)."

Meanwhile, in the southern kingdom, the people were going through the ritual of religious practice, but their hearts were far from God. They were continuing in sin. Furthermore, King Ahaz sought to replicate the altar of the Assyrians, an obvious offense to God. 

Thence, we have more reasons why God pronounced judgment upon the land and people of Israel.