^{4 Ref} And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.

^{5 Ref} And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians `her' neighbors,

^{6 Ref} who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

^{7 Ref} And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

^{8 Ref} Neither hath she left her whoredoms since `the days of' Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

^{9 Ref} Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

^{10 Ref} These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her.

^{11 Ref} And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister.