Ezekiel 16:50

And they became haughty, and committed abominations before me: therefore did I remove them when I saw their course.

Leeser Tanakh

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, abundance of food, and prosperous security were hers and her daughters'; but the hand of the poor and needy did she not strengthen.

51And Samaria hath not committed even the half of thy sins; but thou didst multiply thy abominations more than they; and thou hast justified thy sisters through all thy abominations which thou hast done.

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Cross References

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

Genesis 19:24And the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire, from the Lord, out of heaven;

Deuteronomy 23:17(23:18) There shall not be a prostitute of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

2 Kings 23:7And he pulled down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

Proverbs 16:18Before downfall [goeth] pride, and before stumbling, haughtiness of spirit.

Isaiah 13:19And [thus] shall Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the proud ornament of the Chaldeans, become like the overthrow through God 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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