Ezekiel 16:44
42 So I will lay to rest My wrath against you, and My jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be calm and no longer angry.
43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
45 You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46 Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- KJV
- Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
- WEB
- “‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’
- ASV
- Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
- DARBY
- Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall speak in a proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, [so is] her daughter!
- BLB
- Behold everyone quoting proverbs will use [this] proverb against you, saying, ‘Like her mother [is] her daughter.’
- ÅB
- Se, alle som lager ordspråk, skal bruke dette ordspråk om deg: Som moren, så datteren.
- OTB
- ‘Alle som siterer ordtak vil si dette om deg: "Som mor, som datter."
- B1930
- Se, alle som lager ordsprog, skal bruke dette ordsprog om dig: Som moren, så datteren.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 18:2–3
“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
Read in contextPsalms 106:35–38
but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
Read in context1 Samuel 24:13
As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:3
and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Read in contextEzra 9:1
After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
Read in context2 Kings 21:9
But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:45
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
Read in context1 Kings 21:16
And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
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