King James Version
Ezekiel 16:50 in the King James Version says “And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.”
Ezekiel 16:50 · KJV
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And they were haughty”
H1361to soar, i.e., be lofty; figuratively, to be haughty
“and committed”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
“abomination”
H8441properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e., (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“as I saw”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
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