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 detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46Your older sister was Samaria, who lived north of you with her daughters, and your younger sister, who lived south of you, was Sodom with her daughters. Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were! 48As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved. 49“‘See here – this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they 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, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose!
• 1 Kings 16:31As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal.
• Ezekiel 16:48As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.
• Ezekiel 5:6Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.
• 2 Kings 21:9But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.
• John 15:21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
• 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting 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)

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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