Ezekiel 16:50

They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.

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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

49Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

51And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:20And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

Genesis 19:24Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Deuteronomy 23:17No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

2 Kings 23:7And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

Proverbs 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of 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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