Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me, and I took them away when I saw [it].
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.
Genesis 19:9And they said, Back there! And they said [again], This one came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man on Lot; and drew near to break the door.
Psalms 138:6For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off.
Proverbs 16:18Pride [goeth] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 21:4Lofty eyes, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
Isaiah 3:9The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.
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 →