Ezekiel 16:50

But they were hautie, and committed abomination before mee: therefore I tooke them away, as pleased me.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

49Beholde, this was the iniquitie of thy sister Sodom, Pride, fulnesse of bread, and aboundance of idlenesse was in her, and in her daughters: neither did shee strengthen the hande of the poore and needie.

51Neither hath Samaria committed halfe of thy sinnes, but thou hast exceeded them in thine abominations, and hast iustified thy sisters in all thine abominations, which thou hast done.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:20Then the Lord saide, Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous,

Genesis 19:24Then the Lord rained vpon Sodom and vpon Gomorah brimstone, and fire from the Lord out of heauen,

Deuteronomy 23:17There shalbe no whore of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a whore keeper of the sonnes of Israel.

2 Kings 23:7And hee brake downe the houses of the Sodomites, that were in the house of the Lord, where the women woue hangings for the groue.

Proverbs 16:18Pride goeth before destruction, and an high minde before the fall.

Isaiah 13:19And Babel the glorie of kingdomes, the beautie and pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as the destruction of God in Sodom and Gomorah.

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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