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Ezekiel 16:47 Cross-References
Explore 9 cross-references for Ezekiel 16:47 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 47 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“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. as if: or, that was lothed as a small thing”
Ezekiel 16:47 (KJV)
Commentary on Ezekiel 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations—the initial negative creates expectation of commendation, which the verse immediately subverts: but, as if that were a very little thing (כִּמְעַט קָט, kim'at qat—'as a trifling thing'). This rhetorical structure emphasizes Jerusalem's comparative wickedness.Thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways—the Hebrew shachat (שָׁחַת, corrupted) means ruined, destroyed, morally perverted. Jerusalem didn't merely imitate Sodom and Samaria; she surpassed them. This hyperbolic comparison functions to shock Jerusalem out...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Ezekiel 16:47
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“But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.”
“and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.”
“says the Lord Yahweh”
“and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances”
“as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat”
“and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles”
“until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin”
“because they don't know him who sent me.”
“Have you seen [this]”