The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical ExpositionGaebelein, Arno Clemens
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The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition
Gaebelein, Arno Clemens
Bible. Ezekiel -- Commentaries
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against
thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. Thou art thy
mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and
thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and
their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an
Amorite. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters
that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth
at thy right hand is Sodom and her daughters. 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 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. When I shall bring again their
captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the
captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the
captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: That thou mayest
bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast
done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. When thy sisters, Sodom
and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria
and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and
thy daughters shall return to your former estate. For thy sister
Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride. Before
thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the
daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters
of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. Thou hast borne
thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the Lord. For thus saith
the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which
hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant (verses 35-59).
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