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This chapter contains two sections: 1-34 and 36-49 (the status of v.35 is moot), presenting, respectively, a main oracle and a subordinate one. \u201cThe main oracle,\u201d wrote Moshe Greenberg, \u201cis an allegory about two nymphomaniacal sisters, representing Samaria and Jerusalem, whose excesses and bad ends are set out in chronological order\u201d (<\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 488). The secondary oracle consists of a bill of indictment, terms of judgment of said indictment, and sentencing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The names of the sisters are Oholah, representing Samaria, and Oholibah, representing Jerusalem. These names recur in a poem by Shlomo Ibn Gabirol (11<\/span>th<\/span> century, Spain), entitled <\/span>Shomron Kol Titein<\/em> <\/span>(Samaria Cries Out), which has become a fixture of the Kinot recited on Tish`a b\u2019Av. Just what they mean and signify is debatable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eliezer of Beaugency explained that Oholah means \u201cher own [particular?] tent\u201d while Oholibah means \u201cMy tent is within her.\u201d Radak elaborated further, explaining that \u201cher tent signifies that I [God] have no share in it, referring to the [golden] calves made by Jeroboam,\u201d and Oholibah means \u201cI dwell within her because the Holy Temple is the place of My glory.\u201d Malbim added the observation that Oholah is called the \u201colder\u201d sister because the ten tribes were more populous than Judah.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to <\/span>Rabbi Yoel bin Nun<\/span><\/a>, the \u201cone mother\u201d (2) of the two sisters stands for the united kingdom of David and Solomon, the \u201cwhoring in Egypt\u201d represents Solomon\u2019s foreign wives, in general, and Pharaoh\u2019s daughter, in particular, and may also allude to the fact that Jeroboam ben Nebat, who split that united kingdom, found refuge in Egypt at a critical moment. He also pointed to vs. 14-15, \u201cMen sculpted upon the walls, girded with belts round their waists and with flowing turbans on their heads,\u201d as evidence of Ezekiel\u2019s acquaintance with Assyrian-Babylonian culture as has been confirmed from archaeological finds from his era.<\/span><\/p>\n

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