Ezek.16.47

Ezekiel 16:47

KJV GOD

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.

Judgment on Jerusalem

Cross References

1 Kings 16:31

KJV

And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

Ahab Reigns in Israel, Marries Jezebel

2 Kings 21:9

KJV

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.

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

Jeremiah 3:7

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And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Judah Follows Israel’s Example

Jeremiah 3:8

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And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Judah Follows Israel’s Example

Ezekiel 5:6

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And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

The Razor of Judgment

Ezekiel 16:48

KJV GOD

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.

Judgment on Jerusalem

Ezekiel 16:51

KJV GOD

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.

Judgment on Jerusalem

Ezekiel 16:52

KJV GOD

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.