“Then I said of her who was old in adulteries, ‘Now will they commit whoredoms with her, and she with them'. And they went in to her as they go into a prostitute, so they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.
The sad picture of an aged prostitute depicts the depths to which Samaria and Jerusalem had fallen. But they had still refused to turn back to God, indeed they had become more and more involved in widespread idolatry as we have seen earlier (see for example chapter 8).