Ezekiel 16
NASB2020
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

ModeText only

New American Standard Bible 2020

Ezekiel 16:44-52

44“Behold, everyone who quotes 1proverbs will quote this proverb about you, saying, ‘Like 2mother, like daughter.’ 45You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the 3sister of your sisters, who 4loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46Now your 5older sister is Samaria, who lives 6north of you with her 7daughters; and your younger sister, who lives 8south of you, is 9Sodom with her 10daughters. 47Yet you have not merely walked in their ways and 11committed their abominations; but, as if that were 12too little, you also acted 13more corruptly in all your conduct than they. 48As I live,” declares the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have 14not done as you and your daughters have done! 49Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had 15arrogance, 16plenty of food, and 17carefree ease, but she did not 18help the 19poor and needy. 50So they were haughty and committed 20abominations before Me. Therefore I 21removed them 22when I saw it. 51Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. So you have made your sisters appear 23innocent by all your abominations which you have committed. 52Also, bear your disgrace in that you have 24made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted 25more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear innocent.

Read all of Ezekiel 16

Notes

  1. 1. Ezekiel 16:44 1 Sam 24:13; Ezek 12:22, 23; 18:2, 3 ↩
  2. 2. Ezekiel 16:44 Lit her mother, her daughter ↩
  3. 3. Ezekiel 16:45 Ezek 23:2 ↩
  4. 4. Ezekiel 16:45 Is 1:4; Ezek 23:37-39; Zech 11:8 ↩
  5. 5. Ezekiel 16:46 Jer 3:8-11; Ezek 23:4 ↩
  6. 6. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit on your left ↩
  7. 7. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e., surrounding villages; so through v 55 ↩
  8. 8. Ezekiel 16:46 Lit from your right ↩
  9. 9. Ezekiel 16:46 Gen 13:10-13; 18:20; Ezek 16:48, 49, 53-56, 61 ↩
  10. 10. Ezekiel 16:46 I.e., surrounding villages; so through v 55 ↩
  11. 11. Ezekiel 16:47 Lit acted in their ↩
  12. 12. Ezekiel 16:47 1 Kin 16:31 ↩
  13. 13. Ezekiel 16:47 2 Kin 21:9; Ezek 5:6; 16:48, 51 ↩
  14. 14. Ezekiel 16:48 Matt 10:15; 11:23, 24 ↩
  15. 15. Ezekiel 16:49 Gen 19:9; Ps 138:6; Is 3:9; Ezek 28:2, 9, 17 ↩
  16. 16. Ezekiel 16:49 Gen 13:10; Is 22:13; Amos 6:4-6 ↩
  17. 17. Ezekiel 16:49 Luke 12:16-20; 16:19 ↩
  18. 18. Ezekiel 16:49 Lit grasp the hand of ↩
  19. 19. Ezekiel 16:49 Ezek 18:7, 12, 16 ↩
  20. 20. Ezekiel 16:50 Gen 13:13; 18:20; 19:5 ↩
  21. 21. Ezekiel 16:50 Gen 19:24, 25 ↩
  22. 22. Ezekiel 16:50 Some mss and ancient versions as you have seen ↩
  23. 23. Ezekiel 16:51 Jer 3:8-11 ↩
  24. 24. Ezekiel 16:52 Lit mediated for ↩
  25. 25. Ezekiel 16:52 Ezek 16:47, 48, 51 ↩

Commentaries on Ezekiel 16

New American Standard Bible 2020 — © 1960–2020 The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved.