Ezekiel 16:50

And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away as I saw [fit].

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

In Context

49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man.

51Neither has Samaria committed half of thy sins, but thou have multiplied thine abominations more than they, and have justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou have done.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:20And LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Genesis 19:24Then LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from LORD out of heaven.

Deuteronomy 23:17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

2 Kings 23:7And he broke down the houses of the sodomites that were in the house of LORD where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

Proverbs 16:18Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:45-60

The Wickedness of Jerusalem; Punishment of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 593.) 44 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 loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed 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… Read the whole commentary →

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