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You quickly surpassed them in corruption.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/16.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/16.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as <i>if that were</i> a very little <i>thing</i>, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/16.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as <i>if that were</i> too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yet you have not <i>merely</i> walked in their ways and committed their abominations; <i>but,</i> as <i>if that were</i> too little, you also acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/16.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/16.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before all your ways were more corrupt than theirs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Didn&#8217t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before you behaved more corruptly than they did.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/16.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/16.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />You followed their way of life and their wicked customs, and soon you were more repulsive than they were. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/16.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/16.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />You didn't follow their ways. You didn't do the same disgusting things that they did. It only took you a little time to be more corrupt than they ever were.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/16.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Were you satisfied to follow in their footsteps and copy their disgusting actions? No, in only a little while you were acting worse than they were in everything you did. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/16.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />It wasn't just that you lived like they did and committed their detestable practices, but in just a little while your behavior led you to become more corrupt than they were!"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/16.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/16.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/16.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/16.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/16.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And you have not walked in their ways, "" And done according to their abominations, "" It has been loathed as a little thing, "" Indeed, you do more corruptly than they in all your ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And -- in their ways thou hast not walked, And according to their abominations done, As a little thing it hath been loathed, And thou dost more corruptly than they in all thy ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/16.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And thou wentest not in their ways, and thou didst not their abominations: loathing as a little, and thou wilt be corrupted above them in all thy ways.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/16.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />But neither have you walked in their ways. For you have done only a little less compared to their wickedness. You have acted almost more wickedly, in all your ways, than they have acted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Not only did you walk in their ways and act as abominably as they did, but in a very short time you became more corrupt in all your ways than they were.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You not only followed their ways, and acted according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/16.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Yet you have not walked according to their ways, nor done according to their abominations; but in a very little time you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And your goings were not like their ways, and you had not done like their abominations, until in a little while, and you were more corrupt than they in all your ways<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/16.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/16.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Yet notwithstanding thou hast not walked in their ways, neither hast thou done according to their iniquities within a little, but thou hast exceeded them in all thy ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=3987" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Judgment on Jerusalem</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">46</span>Your older sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to your north; and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to your south. <span class="reftext">47</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">And you not only</a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: hā·laḵt (V-Qal-Perf-2fs) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">walked</a> <a href="/hebrew/mê·hên (Prep-m:: Pro-3fp) -- ">in their</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: bə·ḵāl (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1870.htm" title="1870: də·rā·ḵā·yiḵ (N-cpc:: 2fs) -- Way, road, distance, journey, manner. From darak; a road; figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1870.htm" title="1870: ḇə·ḏar·ḵê·hen (Prep-b:: N-cpc:: 3fp) -- Way, road, distance, journey, manner. From darak; a road; figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb.">ways</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ʿå̄·śī·ṯī (V-Qal-Perf-2fs) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">and practiced</a> <a href="/hebrew/8441.htm" title="8441: ū·ḇə·ṯō·w·‘ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·hen (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-fpc:: 3fp) -- Or tonebah; feminine active participle of ta'ab; properly, something disgusting, i.e. an abhorrence; especially idolatry or an idol.">their abominations,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4592.htm" title="4592: kim·‘aṭ (Prep-k:: Adj-ms) -- A little, fewness, a few. Or miat; from ma'at; a little or few.">but soon you were</a> <a href="/hebrew/6985.htm" title="6985: qāṭ (Adj-ms) -- Perhaps only. From qatat in the sense of abbreviation; a little, i.e. merely."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7843.htm" title="7843: wat·taš·ḥi·ṯî (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-2fs) -- Perhaps to go to ruin. A primitive root; to decay, i.e. ruin.">more depraved than they were.</a> </span><span class="reftext">48</span>As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/3-11.htm">Jeremiah 3:11</a></span><br />And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/4-6.htm">Lamentations 4:6</a></span><br />The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/11-23.htm">Matthew 11:23-24</a></span><br />And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. / But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/10-12.htm">Luke 10:12-14</a></span><br />I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town. / Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. / But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/21-9.htm">2 Kings 21:9</a></span><br />But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-10.htm">Isaiah 1:10</a></span><br />Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/4-15.htm">Hosea 4:15</a></span><br />Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/4-1.htm">Amos 4:1</a></span><br />Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/3-1.htm">Zephaniah 3:1-2</a></span><br />Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled! / She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-28.htm">Romans 1:28-32</a></span><br />Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. / They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_peter/2-6.htm">2 Peter 2:6-8</a></span><br />if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly; / and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless / (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jude/1-7.htm">Jude 1:7</a></span><br />In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/11-8.htm">Revelation 11:8</a></span><br />Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/23-14.htm">Jeremiah 23:14</a></span><br />And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/33-9.htm">2 Chronicles 33:9</a></span><br />So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.</p><p class="hdg">as if that were a very little thing.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/8-17.htm">Ezekiel 8:17</a></b></br> Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen <i>this</i>, O 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 returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/16-31.htm">1 Kings 16:31</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="hdg">thou wast</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/16-48.htm">Ezekiel 16:48,51</a></b></br> <i>As</i> I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/5-6.htm">Ezekiel 5:6,7</a></b></br> And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that <i>are</i> round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/21-9.htm">2 Kings 21:9,16</a></b></br> 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… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/16-43.htm">Abominations</a> <a href="/ezekiel/15-8.htm">Acted</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-27.htm">Conduct</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-8.htm">Content</a> <a href="/proverbs/25-1.htm">Copied</a> <a href="/jeremiah/17-9.htm">Corrupt</a> <a href="/proverbs/25-26.htm">Corrupted</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-28.htm">Corruptly</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-18.htm">Deal</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-19.htm">Deeper</a> <a href="/proverbs/13-20.htm">Depraved</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-36.htm">Detestable</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-16.htm">Little</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-24.htm">Merely</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-22.htm">Practices</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-3.htm">Soon</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-20.htm">Walk</a> <a href="/ezekiel/11-12.htm">Walked</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Wast</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-36.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/ezekiel/12-24.htm">Within</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/16-50.htm">Abominations</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-52.htm">Acted</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-30.htm">Conduct</a> <a href="/hosea/5-11.htm">Content</a> <a href="/joshua/8-32.htm">Copied</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-44.htm">Corrupt</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-3.htm">Corrupted</a> <a href="/hosea/9-9.htm">Corruptly</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-59.htm">Deal</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-3.htm">Deeper</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Depraved</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-50.htm">Detestable</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-50.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-2.htm">Little</a> <a href="/matthew/8-8.htm">Merely</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-58.htm">Practices</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-10.htm">Soon</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-9.htm">Walk</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-9.htm">Walked</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-30.htm">Wast</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-58.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-7.htm">Within</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 16</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-1.htm">Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-6.htm">God's extraordinary love toward her,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-15.htm">Her grievous judgment</a></span><br><span class="reftext">35. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-35.htm">Her sin, equal to her mother, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">46. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-46.htm">and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">59. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-59.htm">calls for judgments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">60. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-60.htm">Mercy is promised her in the end</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Walking in their ways suggests adopting their lifestyle and moral conduct, which were contrary to God's commandments. Historically, the Israelites were warned against adopting the customs of the Canaanites and other pagan nations (<a href="/leviticus/18-3.htm">Leviticus 18:3</a>). This reflects a pattern of disobedience and assimilation into the surrounding culture, which led to spiritual and moral decline.<p><b>and practiced their abominations</b><br>Abominations refer to actions that are detestable to God, often associated with idolatry and immoral practices. In the context of Ezekiel, these abominations included idol worship, child sacrifice, and sexual immorality. The term is frequently used in the Old Testament to describe practices that are particularly offensive to God (<a href="/deuteronomy/18-9.htm">Deuteronomy 18:9-12</a>). The Israelites were explicitly commanded to avoid such practices, yet they engaged in them, showing a blatant disregard for God's law.<p><b>but soon you were more depraved than they were</b><br>This phrase highlights the extent of Jerusalem's sinfulness, surpassing even that of the notoriously wicked cities of Samaria and Sodom. The comparison to Sodom is significant, as Sodom is often used as a symbol of extreme moral corruption (Genesis 19). The historical context shows that Jerusalem, despite having the Temple and the Law, fell into greater depravity, indicating a deeper level of rebellion against God. This serves as a warning of the consequences of turning away from God's ways and the potential for sin to escalate when unchecked.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet of God who ministered to the Israelites during their Babylonian exile. He conveyed God's messages, often through vivid imagery and allegory.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The city being addressed in this passage, representing the people of Israel who have turned away from God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/s/sodom_and_samaria.htm">Sodom and Samaria</a></b><br>Referenced earlier in the chapter as examples of cities that were judged for their wickedness. They serve as a comparison to Jerusalem's behavior.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The ultimate judge and the one who communicates through Ezekiel, expressing disappointment and anger at Jerusalem's actions.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylonian_exile.htm">Babylonian Exile</a></b><br>The historical context in which Ezekiel prophesied, a period of punishment and reflection for the Israelites.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/u/understanding_spiritual_decline.htm">Understanding Spiritual Decline</a></b><br>The passage highlights how quickly and severely spiritual decline can occur when God's people turn away from His ways. It serves as a warning to remain vigilant in faith and obedience.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_complacency.htm">The Danger of Complacency</a></b><br>Jerusalem's corruption surpassed even that of Sodom and Samaria, illustrating the danger of becoming complacent in one's spiritual life and assuming immunity from judgment.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a></b><br>While the passage is a rebuke, it also implies the possibility of repentance. God's warnings are opportunities for His people to turn back to Him and seek restoration.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/comparative_righteousness.htm">Comparative Righteousness</a></b><br>The tendency to compare oneself to others can lead to a false sense of security. True righteousness is measured by God's standards, not by the perceived wickedness of others.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_prophetic_voices.htm">The Role of Prophetic Voices</a></b><br>Ezekiel's role as a prophet underscores the importance of listening to and heeding God's messengers, who call His people back to faithfulness.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_16.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 16</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_8's_view_on_idols_compare.htm">How does the severe condemnation of these idolatries in Ezekiel 8 align or conflict with other biblical accounts of tolerating foreign gods?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/ezekiel_18_24_vs._secure_salvation.htm">Ezekiel 18:24 - If a righteous person can lose all previous righteousness by turning away, how does this align with other Bible passages that suggest salvation or favor is more secure?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_ezek._16_46-48_and_history_align.htm">How does Ezekiel 16:46-48 align with historical records that do not portray Sodom or Samaria as more righteous than Jerusalem?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_is_2_kings_16_3_just_with_god.htm">How can 2 Kings 16:3 be reconciled with a supposedly just God if Ahaz is recorded as sacrificing his own son?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/16.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(47) <span class= "bld">As if that were a very little thing.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">thou hast not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations a little only, but hast done more corruptly than they, &c. </span>This excess of wickedness is constantly charged upon the Jews (see <a href="/context/ezekiel/5-6.htm" title="And she has 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.">Ezekiel 5:6-7</a>). 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.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/16.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 47.</span> - The words in italics indicate, as usual, a difficulty. A better construction gives, <span class="accented">Thou hast not</span>... <span class="accented">done after a small measure only.</span> So the Vulgate, <span class="accented">Neque secundum scelera earum fecisti pauxillum minus.</span> The LXX. connects the words with the clause that follows: "Thou wast all but (<span class="greek">παρὰ μικρὸν</span>) corrupted more than they." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">You not only</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹ֤א</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">walked</span><br /><span class="heb">הָלַ֔כְתְּ</span> <span class="translit">(hā·laḵt)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go, come, walk</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in their</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵהֵ֖ן</span> <span class="translit">(mê·hên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2004.htm">Strong's 2004: </a> </span><span class="str2">They</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ways</span><br /><span class="heb">בְדַרְכֵיהֶן֙</span> <span class="translit">(ḇə·ḏar·ḵê·hen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - common plural construct | third person feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1870.htm">Strong's 1870: </a> </span><span class="str2">A road, a course of life, mode of action</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and practiced</span><br /><span class="heb">עָשִׂ֑ית</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·śîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their abominations,</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבְתוֹעֲבֽוֹתֵיהֶ֖ן</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇə·ṯō·w·‘ă·ḇō·w·ṯê·hen)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8441.htm">Strong's 8441: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol</span><br /><br /><span class="word">but soon you were</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּמְעַ֣ט</span> <span class="translit">(kim·‘aṭ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4592.htm">Strong's 4592: </a> </span><span class="str2">A little, fewness, a few</span><br /><br /><span class="word">more depraved than they were.</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתַּשְׁחִ֥תִי</span> <span class="translit">(wat·taš·ḥi·ṯî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7843.htm">Strong's 7843: </a> </span><span class="str2">Perhaps to go to ruin</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/16-47.htm">Ezekiel 16:47 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/16-47.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 16:47 Yet have you not walked in their (Ezek. 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