Ezekiel 16:47

Ezekiel 16:47 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

Context of Ezekiel 16:47

45You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] father an Amorite. 46Now your older sister is Samaria, she with her daughters (outlying cities) who live north of you; and your younger sister is Sodom, she with her daughters who live south of you. Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they. 48As I live,” says the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 49Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 16:47 word by word

וְלֹ֤א בְדַרְכֵיהֶן֙ הָלַ֔כְתְּ וּבְתוֹעֲבֽוֹתֵיהֶ֖ן עָשִׂ֑ית כִּמְעַ֣ט קָ֔ט וַתַּשְׁחִ֥תִי מֵהֵ֖ן בְּכָל־דְּרָכָֽיִךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Yet hast thou not walkedהָלַךְhâlak · to go: walkH1980
• after their waysדֶּ֫רֶךְderek · way: conductH1870
• nor doneעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• after their abominationsתּוֹעֵבַהtô‛êbah tô‛êbah · abominationH8441
• a veryקָ֔טqaţ · onlyH6985
• littleקוּטqûţ · feel a loathingH6962
• littleמְעַטme‛aţ me‛âţ · littleH4592
• thou wast corruptedשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• more than theyהֵןhên · they(fem.)H2004

Cross-references for Ezekiel 16:47

• Ezekiel 8:17He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too slight a thing for the house of Judah to commit the repulsive acts which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and repeatedly provoked Me to anger? And behold, they are putting the branch to their nose.
• 1 Kings 16:31It came about, as if it had been a trivial thing for Ahab to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.
• Ezekiel 16:48As I live,” says the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
• Ezekiel 5:6And she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the [pagan] nations and against My statutes more than the countries that are around her; for Israel has rejected My ordinances and has not walked in My statutes.’
• 2 Kings 21:9But they did not listen; and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons (descendants) of Israel.
• John 15:21But they will do all these [hurtful] things to you for My name’s sake [because you bear My name and are identified with Me], for they do not know the One who sent Me.
• 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported [everywhere] that there is sexual immorality among you, a kind of immorality that is condemned even among the [unbelieving] Gentiles: that someone has [an intimate relationship with] his father’s wife.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 16:47

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 46-50Samaria, Jerusalem’s older (or larger) sister, engaged in improper worship since Jeroboam introduced golden calves at the national shrines in Dan and Bethel (1 Kings 12:28–33). Sodom, Jerusalem’s younger (or smaller) sister, became known for sexual sin (Genesis 19:4–9) and for pride, gluttony, laziness, and neglect of the poor and needy.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4747. their abominations--Milcom and Chemosh, the "abominations of Ammon and Moab" (1Ki 11:5, 7). corrupted more than they--So it is expressly recorded of Manasseh (2Ki 21:9).Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 16:47

• Lasciviousness
• Sodom
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Confound
• Eminent
• Equal
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• Gird
• Justify
• Rest
• Sodom
• Solomon, Song of
• Crime; Crimes

Commentaries on Ezekiel 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings