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 your mother’s daughter. She rejected her husband and her children. You are exactly like your sisters. They rejected their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite. 46“ ‘Your older sister was Samaria. She and her daughters lived north of you. Your younger sister is Sodom. She lives south of you with her daughters. You didn’t follow their ways. You didn’t do the same disgusting things that they did. It only took you a little time to be more corrupt than they ever were. 48As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done. 49This is what your sister Sodom has done wrong. She and her daughters were proud that they had plenty of food and had peace and security. They didn’t help the poor and the 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 asked me, “Son of man, do you see this? Isn’t it bad enough that the people of Judah have done these disgusting things that you have seen here? Yet, they also fill the land with violence and continue to provoke me even more. Look how they insult me in the worst possible way.
• 1 Kings 16:31It wasn’t enough that he committed the same sins as Jeroboam (Nebat’s son). He also married Jezebel, daughter of King Ethbaal of Sidon. Ahab then served and worshiped Baal.
• Ezekiel 16:48As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.
• Ezekiel 5:6The people of Jerusalem have rebelled against my rules and my laws more than the surrounding nations. They have rejected my rules, and they don’t live by my laws.
• 2 Kings 21:9(But they wouldn’t obey.) Manasseh misled Israel so that they did more evil things than the nations that the Lord had destroyed when the Israelites arrived in the land.
• John 15:21Indeed, they will do all this to you because you are committed to me, since they don’t know the one who sent me.
• 1 Corinthians 5:1Your own members are aware that there is sexual sin going on among them. This kind of sin is not even heard of among unbelievers—a man is actually married to 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

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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