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Ezekiel 16:50
50She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen.
Ezekiel 16:50 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
- New International Version (NIV)They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
Context of Ezekiel 16:50
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. She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen. 51“Even Samaria did not commit half your sins. You have done far more detestable things than your sisters ever did. They seem righteous compared to you. 52Shame on you! Your sins are so terrible that you make your sisters seem righteous, even virtuous.
Read all of Ezekiel 16Ezekiel 16:50 word by word
וַֽתִּגְבְּהֶ֔ינָה וַתַּעֲשֶׂ֥ינָה תוֹעֵבָ֖ה לְפָנָ֑י וָאָסִ֥יר אֶתְהֶ֖ן כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר רָאִֽיתִי׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 16:50
- Genesis 13:13But the people of this area were extremely wicked and constantly sinned against the Lord.
- Genesis 18:20So the Lord told Abraham, “I have heard a great outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah, because their sin is so flagrant.
- Genesis 19:5They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”
- Leviticus 18:22“Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.
- Deuteronomy 23:17“No Israelite, whether man or woman, may become a temple prostitute.
- 2 Kings 23:7He also tore down the living quarters of the male and female shrine prostitutes that were inside the Temple of the Lord, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah pole.
- Proverbs 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.
- Proverbs 18:12Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.
- Romans 1:26That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
- Jude 1:7And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment.
- Genesis 19:24Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Deuteronomy 29:23They will exclaim, ‘The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.’
- Job 18:15The homes of the wicked will burn down; burning sulfur rains on their houses.
- Isaiah 13:19Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the flower of Chaldean pride, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.
- Jeremiah 20:16Let him be destroyed like the cities of old that the Lord overthrew without mercy. Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,
- Jeremiah 49:18It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,” says the Lord. “No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 16:50
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 50As I saw good - Or, “as soon as I saw it.” Omit “good.” God saw and punished. Compare Genesis 18:21.Read the comment
- 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. 5050. haughty--puffed up with prosperity. abomination before me--"sinners before the Lord" (Ge 13:13); said of those whose sin is so heinous as to cry out to God for immediate judgments; presumptuous sins, daring God to the face (Ge 18:20; 19:5). I took them away--(Ge 19:24). as I saw good--rather, "according to what I saw"; referring to Ge 18:21, where God says, "I will go down, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is…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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