New Living Translation
Ezekiel 16:47
47But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption.
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
45For your mother loathed her husband and her children, and so do you. And you are exactly like your sisters, for they despised their husbands and their children. Truly your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46“Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters in the north. Your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters in the south. But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption. 48As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters. 49Sodom’s sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door.
Read all of Ezekiel 16Ezekiel 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 8:17“Have you seen this, son of man?” he asked. “Is it nothing to the people of Judah that they commit these detestable sins, leading the whole nation into violence, thumbing their noses at me, and provoking my anger?
- 1 Kings 16:31And as though it were not enough to follow the sinful example of Jeroboam, he married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians, and he began to bow down in worship of Baal.
- Ezekiel 16:48As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters.
- Ezekiel 5:6but she has rebelled against my regulations and decrees and has been even more wicked than the surrounding nations. She has refused to obey the regulations and decrees I gave her to follow.
- 2 Kings 21:9But the people refused to listen, and Manasseh led them to do even more evil than the pagan nations that the Lord had destroyed when the people of Israel entered the land.
- John 15:21They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me.
- 1 Corinthians 5:1I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you—something that even pagans don’t do. I am told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother.
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
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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
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