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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Of one mother - Israel and Judah were branches of the same stock.
Adam Clarke
Son of man, there were two women - All the Hebrews were derived from one source, Abraham and Sarah; and, till the schism under Rehoboam, formed but one people: but as these ten tribes and a half…
God had often spoken to Ezekiel, and by him to the people, to this effect, but now his word comes again; for God speaks the same thing once, yea, twice, yea, many a time, and all little enough, and…
Cambridge Bible
The two kingdoms are already called sisters, Jer 3:7. Cf. Eze 16:46.