Ezekiel 23:2
 Ezekiel 23:2 
New International Version (©2011)
"Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Son of man, once there were two sisters who were daughters of the same mother.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Son 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;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother,

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Son of Man, here are two sisters who are daughters from the same mother.

NET Bible (©2006)
"Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"Son of man, there were once two women, daughters of the same mother.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

American King James Version
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

American Standard Version
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.

Darby Bible Translation
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:

Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

World English Bible
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

Young's Literal Translation
Two women were daughters of one mother,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-49 A history of the apostacy of God's people from him, and the aggravation thereof. - In this parable, Samaria and Israel bear the name Aholah, her own tabernacle; because the places of worship those kingdoms had, were of their own devising. Jerusalem and Judah bear the name of Aholibah, my tabernacle is in her, because their temple was the place which God himself had chosen, to put his name there. The language and figures are according to those times. Will not such humbling representations of nature keep open perpetual repentance and sorrow in the soul, hiding pride from our eyes, and taking us from self-righteousness? Will it not also prompt the soul to look to God continually for grace, that by his Holy Spirit we may mortify the deeds of the body, and live in holy conversation and godliness?


Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. two … of one mother—Israel and Judah, one nation by birth from the same ancestress, Sarah.


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The Adultery of Oholah and Aholibah
1The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 2Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: 3And they committed prostitutions in Egypt; they committed prostitutions in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. …

Ezekiel 16:45 You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 Your older sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.
Ezekiel 23:1 The word of the LORD came to me: