^{4 Ref} And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

^{5 Ref} And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

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

^{7 Ref} Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

^{8 Ref} Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.