Ezekiel 16:47

Yet not in their ways, didst thou walk, nor according to their abominations, didst thou do,— As though that were quite too little, thou didst corrupt thyself beyond them in all thy ways.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

In Context

46And thine elder sister, was Samaria, she and her daughters, dwelling on thy left hand,— And thy sister younger than thou dwelling on thy right hand was Sodom and her daughters.

48As I live, Declareth My Lord Yahweh, Very! Sodom thy sister had not done, neither she nor her daughters,—as thou and thy daughters have done.

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:9But they hearkened not,—and Manasseh led them astray to do the thing that was wicked, more than the nations which Yahweh destroyed from before the sons of Israel.

Ezekiel 5:6But she hath changed my regulations into lawlessness, more than the nations, And my statutes more than the countries which are round bout her, For my regulations, have they rejected, And in my statutes, have they not walked.

Ezekiel 8:17Then said he unto me Hast thou seen O son of man? Is it too small a thing for the house of Judah, to be committing the abominations which they have committed here,—that they have filled the land with violence and have again provoked me to anger and there they are! putting the branch to my nose.

Ezekiel 16:51Nor did, Samaria, commit, one-half thy sins,— But thou didst multiply thine abominations more than they, And didst cause thy sisters to appear righteous, by all the abominations which thou didst commit.

1 Corinthians 5:1On all hands, there is reported to be among you—fornication, and such fornication as this—which, not among the nations, [is found],—as that one should have, his father’s wife:—

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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