Ezekiel 23:44
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
Aholah and Aholibah are lewd, adulterous women approached as prostitutes, representing Samaria and Israel and Jerusalem and Judah and illustrating their fearful sins. Their harlotry is apostasy in turning from covenant with God and from His law, worship and precepts to idolatrous and false religious groups and to desiring relations with foreign powers. That turning made God's people like the world when they abandoned His precepts and followed Babylon, so that Israel and Babylon's lives became joined.
That seeking of foreign help included seeking help in Egypt, which was rebellion in forsaking God, and desiring the Assyrians and Babylonians. The verse stands in a harsh, unflattering rebuke of sin in its awful wickedness, in which God earnestly pleads with His children to turn to Him. Its searching moral instruction is best read in private.
The chapter shows the king of Babylon coming against Jerusalem as part of the judgment that scattered Israel for disobedience. Its corrupt woman represents a corrupt church, showing that the woman in Zechariah 5 is a symbol of religious corruption. The same guilt belongs to professed Christian churches today that seek union with the civil power, for God has furnished full blessing in Jesus Christ and demands all from His church and will not divide His glory with another. The image does not refer to a church's use of civil law to manage temporal affairs.