Ezekiel 16:44
42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
45 Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
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 mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
Read in contextPsalms 106:35–38
But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
Read in context1 Samuel 24:13
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:3
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Read in contextEzra 9:1
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Read in context2 Kings 21:9
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
Read in contextEzekiel 16:45
Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Read in context1 Kings 21:16
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
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