Ezekiel 16
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Ezekiel 16:44-46

44“BeholdH2009, everyoneH3605 who quotesH4911 1proverbsH4911 will quoteH4911 this proverbH4911 aboutH5921 you, sayingH559, ‘Like 2motherH517, like daughterH1323.’

45You are the daughterH1323 of your motherH517, who loathedH1602 her husbandH376 and childrenH1121. You are also the 3sisterH269 of your sistersH269, whoH834 4loathedH1602 their husbandsH376 and childrenH1121. Your motherH517 was a HittiteH2850 and your fatherH1 an AmoriteH567.

46Now your 5olderH1419 sisterH269 is SamariaH8111, who livesH3427 6northH8040 of you with her 7daughtersH1323; and your youngerH6996 sisterH269, who livesH3427 8southH3225 of you, is 9SodomH5467 with her 10daughtersH1323.

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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 ↩

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