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Ezekiel 16:47

Judgment

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.

And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.

48 As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.

49 Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

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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.

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BSB
And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
KJV
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
WEB
Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
ASV
Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
DARBY
And thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations; but as though that were a very little, thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
BLB
And not [only] in their ways did you walk, and according to their abominations you acted—as if too little—and you became more corrupt than they in all your ways!
ÅB
Du gikk ikke på deres veier og gjorde ikke etter deres styggedommer; men bare en liten stund - så gjorde du det verre enn de, på alle dine veier.
OTB
Du fulgte ikke bare deres veier og begikk deres avskyeligheter, men i alle dine veier ble du snart mer fordervet enn de.
B1930
Du gikk ikke på deres veier og gjorde ikke efter deres vederstyggeligheter; men bare en liten stund - så gjorde du det verre enn de, på alle dine veier.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 2 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.

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  • Ezekiel 5:6–7

    But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

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  • Ezekiel 16:51

    Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.

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  • Ezekiel 16:48

    As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.

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  • 1 Kings 16:31

    And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.

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  • John 15:21–22

    But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

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  • Ezekiel 8:17

    “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

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  • 1 Corinthians 5:1

    It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

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