Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
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Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
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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.
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Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but in a very little while thou didst deal more corruptly than they in all thy ways.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 16:47 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 21:9 But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
- Ezekiel 5:6-7 She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’ “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
- Ezekiel 16:48 As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
- Ezekiel 16:51 Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.
- 1 Kings 16:31 As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
- 2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
- Ezekiel 8:17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
- John 15:21-22 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
- 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain Now the Prophet, not content with the simile which…
Now the Prophet, not content with the simile which he had used, says that the Jews were far worse than either their mothers or sisters. Yet he is not inconsistent, for God wished by degrees to drag the wicked to trial. If at the very first word he had said that they were worse than the Sodomites, they would have been less attentive to this accusation. But when he proposed a thing incredible, namely, that they were the daughters of the nations of Canaan, and the sisters of Samaria and Sodom, and afterwards proceeded further, and pronounced that they surpassed both their mother and sisters, this, as I have said, would stir up their minds more vehemently. This difference then contains no inconsistency, but rather tends to magnify their crimes. You, says he, have not walked according to their ways. He does not here exempt the Jews from participating in sins as if they were faultless through not imitating the Hittites, or Sodomites, or Israelites: but the word walking ought to be restricted to the sense of equality, as if he said, you are not equal. But it is a kind of correction when God says that the Jews were not equal to the Hittites or Sodomites, meaning that their impiety was more detestable, since they rushed forward to all kinds of wickedness with greater license. We now understand the Prophet’s meaning when he says that; the Jews had not walked in the ways of either Sodom or Samaria or the nations of Canaan, since they had gone before them, and even with greater ardor of pursuit; for if they had simply imitated the three people of whom mention has been made, they had walked in their ways. But when they were so hurried on in their intemperance as to run before them, they did not walk in their ways only through leaving them behind. And this comparison will sufficiently explain the Prophet’s mind, that the Jews did not follow either the Sodomites, Israelites, or Canaanites, but through their base and headlong violence left them far behind. And he says, as if it were only a small matter, that is, as if it were of little moment to thee to be like thy mother and sisters. But you have been corrupt, says he, before them. He now explains the case more clearly, since they had not walked in their ways through precipitating themselves with greater license, as we have already said. It follows —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain But done far worse.
But done far worse.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 16:47 Yet hast thou not walked after their…
Eze 16:47 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.
Ver. 47. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways.] But hast out sinned them. Nolunt solita peccare, Do not make a habit of sinning, saith Seneca of some, They will not sin in an ordinary way. Et pudet non esse impudentes, saith Augustine of others; i.e., they are ashamed not to be past shame.
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But as if that were a very little thing.] Paululum pauxillumque; A peccadillo.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Yet, Heb. And.
Yet, Heb. And.
Walked; lived and behaved thyself as they did, for they, all things considered, were less sinners than thou.
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Nor done, & c.; the same in other words; their doings were abominable, but thine have been worse.
Thou, O Jerusalem! wast corrupted more than they; art deeper dyed in sin. These deep sins were more universal, if not as to the actors, for number, yet as to extent of the wickednesses those actors committed.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain As I live, saith the Lord God,.... This is…
As I live, saith the Lord God,.... This is an oath, which the Lord God swore; who, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, by his life; and this he did to confirm what he had and was about to say, that the sins of Judah were greater than those of Samaria and Sodom; which might not be easily believed, but it was as true as he was the living God:
Sodom thy sister hath, or done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters; that is, the inhabitants of Sodom, and of the villages adjacent, as the Targum, had not committed such gross iniquities as the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the towns and villages about it, and of other cities of Judah.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Not walked after their ways - For they, all…
Not walked after their ways - For they, all things considered, were less sinners than thou. Nor done - Their doings were abominable, but thine have been worse.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Ways, but hast done even worse. --- Almost. He…
Ways, but hast done even worse. --- Almost. He seems to diminish their crimes, (Calmet) as if it could hardly be believed that Jerusalem should be more abandoned. Hebrew and Septuagint, "that would be but little: yea, thou hast done more," &c. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain their abominations--Milcom and Chemosh, the "abominations of Ammon and…
their abominations--Milcom and Chemosh, the "abominations of Ammon and Moab" (Kg1 11:5, Kg1 11:7).
corrupted more than they--So it is expressly recorded of Manasseh (Kg2 21:9).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 47. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways…
47. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways — Every Hebrew would say Amen to this statement, but would grind his teeth when he found that the contrast drawn was in favor of these despised cities and nations. (Compare Mat_10:15; Mat_11:24.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 47. as if that were a very little thing]…
47. as if that were a very little thing] Or temporally: but a little while, and then, i.e. speedily thou wast corrupted; though there seems no reference to any actual period of righteousness, such as the times of David. (The strange word ḳâṭ is utterly unknown; any connexion with Ar. ḳaṭ only, or with an Assyr. word “a little,” Fried. Del. p. xvi. is little probable. If the word be anything but an echo of preceding sounds it may be a fragment of the word “little,” cf. Isa_16:14; Isa_29:17.) Cf. ch. Eze_5:6-7.
47–51. The depravity of Jerusalem exceeded that of either of her sisters: Sodom (Eze_16:48-50), Samaria (Eze_16:51).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (47) As if that were a very little thing.—Better,…
(47) As if that were a very little thing.—Better, thou hast not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations a little only, but hast done more corruptly than they, &c. This excess of wickedness is constantly charged upon the Jews (see Eze_5:6-7). Sodom had indeed sinned grievously in its day, but more than 1,000 years had since passed, in which resistance to Divine admonitions had led on to a still more grievous depth of wickedness; and Samaria had been carried into captivity more than a century before the time of the prophet, and during this period the people, with now and then a few short intervals of reformation, had been tending steadily downwards. This same thought is dwelt upon in the four following verses, in which the sin of Sodom is described, while that of Samaria is passed over as being sufficiently well known.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The words in italics indicate, as usual, a difficulty.…
The words in italics indicate, as usual, a difficulty. A better construction gives, Thou hast not done after a small measure only. So the Vulgate, Neque secundum scelera earum fecisti pauxillum minus. The LXX connects the words with the clause that follows: "Thou wast all but (para mikron) corrupted more than they."
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Yahweh continues to speak about Jerusalem as if the city were his unfaithful wife. The city represents the people who live there. (See: Metaphor and Metonymy)
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You not only walked in their ways
The way a person lives is spoken of as if the person were walking on a path. AT: "You not only acted like them" (See: Metaphor)
copied their behavior and practices
Here the words "behavior" and "practices" mean basically the same thing. AT: "copied the things that they did" (See: Doublet)
As I live
"As surely as I am alive." Yahweh uses this expression to show that what he says next is certainly true. This is a way of making a solemn promise. See how you translated this in Ezekiel 5:11. AT: "I solemnly swear" (See: Idiom)
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Sodom
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