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Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/16.htm">New Living Translation</a> For your mother loathed her husband and her children, and so do you. And you are exactly like your sisters, for they despised their husbands and their children. Truly your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/esv/ezekiel/16.htm">English Standard Version</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/16.htm">King James Bible</a> Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/16.htm">New King James Version</a> You are your mother’s daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/amp/ezekiel/16.htm">Amplified Bible</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your [spiritual] mother was a Hittite and your [spiritual] father an Amorite. <a href="/csb/ezekiel/16.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hethite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/asv/ezekiel/16.htm">American Standard Version</a> Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. <a href="/cev/ezekiel/16.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> You are just like your mother, who hated her husband and her own children. You are also like your sisters, who hated their husbands and children. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/16.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/16.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> You are your mother's daughter. She rejected her husband and her children. You are exactly like your sisters. They rejected their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite. <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/16.htm">Good News Translation</a> You really are your mother's daughter. She detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who hated their husbands and their children. You and your sister cities had a Hittite mother and an Amorite father. <a href="/isv/ezekiel/16.htm">International Standard Version</a> You're the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You're the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. "Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite. <a href="/net/ezekiel/16.htm">NET Bible</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/16.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hethite, and your father an Amorite. <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.<div class="vheading2">Majority Text Translations</div><a href="/msb/ezekiel/16.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/web/ezekiel/16.htm">World English Bible</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/16.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> You [are] your mother’s daughter, "" Loathing her husband and her sons, "" And you [are] your sisters’ sister, "" Who loathed their husbands and their sons, "" Your mother [is] a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Thy mother's daughter thou art, Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters' sister thou art, Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. <a href="/slt/ezekiel/16.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Thou thy mother's daughter loathing her husband and her sons; and thou the sister of thy sisters who loathed their husbands and their sons: your mother a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/16.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> You are your mother’s daughter, for she cast away her husband and her children. And you are the sister of your sisters, for they cast away their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Cethite, and your father was an Amorite. <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Bible</a> Yes, you are truly the daughter of your mother who rejected her husband and children: you are truly a sister to your sisters who rejected their husbands and children—your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/16.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> You are your mother's daughter, who deserted her husband and her children; and you are the sister of women who deserted their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> You are your mother’s daughter. She left her husband and her children and sister. You are of the sisterhood who have left their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father, an Amorite<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/16.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. <a href="/sep/ezekiel/16.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> As is the mother, so is thy mother's daughter: thou art she that has rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of thy sisters have rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and your father an Amorite. <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=3961" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Judgment on Jerusalem</a> …44Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ 45<a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859: ’at (Pro-2fs) -- You (masc. sing.). ">You</a> <a href="/hebrew/1323.htm" title="1323: baṯ- (N-fsc) -- Daughter. From banah; a daughter.">are the daughter</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517: ’im·mêḵ (N-fsc:: 2fs) -- A mother. A primitive word; a mother; in a wide sense (like 'ab).">of your mother,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1602.htm" title="1602: gō·‘e·leṯ (V-Qal-Prtcpl-fs) -- To abhor, loathe. A primitive root; to detest; by implication, to reject.">who despised</a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’î·šāh (N-msc:: 3fs) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term.">her husband</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ū·ḇā·ne·hā (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3fs) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">and children.</a> <a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859: ’at (Pro-2fs) -- You (masc. sing.). ">You</a> <a href="/hebrew/269.htm" title="269: wa·’ă·ḥō·wṯ (Conj-w:: N-fsc) -- Sister. Irregular feminine of 'ach; a sister (like 'Ezrachiy), literally and figuratively).">are the sister</a> <a href="/hebrew/269.htm" title="269: ’ă·ḥō·w·ṯêḵ (N-fsc:: 2fs) -- Sister. Irregular feminine of 'ach; a sister (like 'Ezrachiy), literally and figuratively).">of your sisters,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">who</a> <a href="/hebrew/1602.htm" title="1602: gā·‘ă·lū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To abhor, loathe. A primitive root; to detest; by implication, to reject.">despised</a> <a href="/hebrew/582.htm" title="582: ’an·šê·hen (N-mpc:: 3fp) -- Man, mankind. From 'anash; properly, a mortal; hence, a man in general.">their husbands</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ū·ḇə·nê·hen (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3fp) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">and children.</a> <a href="/hebrew/517.htm" title="517: ’im·mə·ḵen (N-fsc:: 2fp) -- A mother. A primitive word; a mother; in a wide sense (like 'ab).">Your mother</a> <a href="/hebrew/2850.htm" title="2850: ḥit·tîṯ (N-proper-ms) -- Desc. of Heth. Patronymically from Cheth; a Chittite, or descendant of Cheth.">was a Hittite</a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: wa·’ă·ḇî·ḵen (Conj-w:: N-msc:: 2fp) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">and your father</a> <a href="/hebrew/567.htm" title="567: ’ĕ·mō·rî (N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps mountain dwellers, a Canaanite tribe. ">an Amorite.</a> 46Your 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.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">Hosea 2:2-5</a> Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts. / Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. / I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery. ... <a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Jeremiah 3:8-10</a> She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. / Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. / Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD. <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Isaiah 1:21</a> See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers! <a href="/lamentations/1-8.htm">Lamentations 1:8-9</a> Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away. / Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed! <a href="/jeremiah/2-20.htm">Jeremiah 2:20-25</a> “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute. / I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine? / Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. ... <a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12-14</a> My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin. <a href="/2_kings/17-15.htm">2 Kings 17:15-17</a> They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. / They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal. / They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. <a href="/isaiah/57-3.htm">Isaiah 57:3-9</a> “But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! / Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit, / who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? ... <a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Jeremiah 13:27</a> Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?” <a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Hosea 9:1</a> Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor. <a href="/matthew/12-39.htm">Matthew 12:39</a> Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. <a href="/john/8-41.htm">John 8:41-44</a> You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.” / Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me. / Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message. ... <a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-5</a> Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” / And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. ... <a href="/galatians/4-22.htm">Galatians 4:22-26</a> For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. / His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise. / These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar. ... <a href="/1_corinthians/6-15.htm">1 Corinthians 6:15-20</a> Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! / Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” / But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.that loatheth<a href="/ezekiel/16-8.htm">Ezekiel 16:8,15,20,21</a> Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine… <a href="/ezekiel/23-37.htm">Ezekiel 23:37-39</a> That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them… <a href="/deuteronomy/5-9.htm">Deuteronomy 5:9</a> Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,your mother<a href="/ezekiel/16-3.htm">Ezekiel 16:3</a> And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/16-3.htm">Amorite</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-36.htm">Children</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-44.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-5.htm">Despised</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-21.htm">Disgust</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-3.htm">Hittite</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-32.htm">Husband</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-38.htm">Husbands</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-7.htm">Loathes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-44.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-12.htm">Mother's</a> <a href="/jeremiah/22-18.htm">Sister</a> <a href="/job/42-11.htm">Sisters</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-20.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-7.htm">True.</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-42.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/amos/2-9.htm">Amorite</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-2.htm">Children</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-11.htm">Daughter</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-59.htm">Despised</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-17.htm">Disgust</a> <a href="/genesis/15-20.htm">Hittite</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-22.htm">Husband</a> <a href="/amos/4-1.htm">Husbands</a> <a href="/numbers/21-5.htm">Loathes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/19-2.htm">Mother</a> <a href="/matthew/13-55.htm">Mother's</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-46.htm">Sister</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-51.htm">Sisters</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-4.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-8.htm">True.</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-53.htm">Turned</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 16</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/16-1.htm">Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem</a> 6. <a href="/ezekiel/16-6.htm">God's extraordinary love toward her,</a> 15. <a href="/ezekiel/16-15.htm">Her grievous judgment</a> 35. <a href="/ezekiel/16-35.htm">Her sin, equal to her mother, </a> 46. <a href="/ezekiel/16-46.htm">and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, </a> 59. <a href="/ezekiel/16-59.htm">calls for judgments</a> 60. <a href="/ezekiel/16-60.htm">Mercy is promised her in the end</a> </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'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/16.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/16.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. This phrase is a metaphorical rebuke directed at Jerusalem, likening the city's behavior to that of a rebellious daughter. In biblical context, the "mother" represents the cultural and spiritual heritage of the people. The reference to despising husband and children suggests a rejection of covenantal relationships, which in the Old Testament often symbolize the people's relationship with God. This imagery is consistent with the prophetic tradition of using family metaphors to describe Israel's unfaithfulness (e.g., <a href="/hosea/1.htm">Hosea 1-3</a>).You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Here, the "sisters" refer to neighboring nations or cities, such as Samaria and Sodom, which are also depicted as having broken their covenantal relationships. This phrase emphasizes the shared guilt and similar behaviors among these groups. The use of "sister" highlights the close relationship and shared characteristics, suggesting that Jerusalem is no better than these other cities, which were known for their wickedness and eventual judgment by God (<a href="/ezekiel/16-46.htm">Ezekiel 16:46-56</a>).Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. This statement is not a literal genealogical claim but a symbolic one. The Hittites and Amorites were ancient peoples known for their idolatry and immorality, often representing pagan influences in the land of Canaan. By identifying Jerusalem's "parents" as these groups, the text underscores the city's spiritual corruption and departure from its covenant with God. This imagery serves as a stark reminder of the Israelites' call to be distinct from the surrounding nations (<a href="/deuteronomy/7.htm">Deuteronomy 7:1-6</a>) and highlights the severity of their apostasy.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet during the Babylonian exile, tasked with delivering God's messages to the Israelites. 2. <a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a> The city being addressed metaphorically as a woman in this passage, representing the people of Israel. 3. <a href="/topical/h/hittites_and_amorites.htm">Hittites and Amorites</a> Ancient peoples often associated with idolatry and immorality, symbolizing the spiritual heritage of Israel's unfaithfulness. 4. <a href="/topical/m/mother_and_sisters.htm">Mother and Sisters</a> Metaphorical references to the spiritual lineage and behavior of Israel, indicating a pattern of rebellion and idolatry. 5. <a href="/topical/b/babylonian_exile.htm">Babylonian Exile</a> The historical context in which Ezekiel prophesied, a time of judgment and reflection for the Israelites.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_heritage_and_identity.htm">Spiritual Heritage and Identity</a> Our spiritual identity is shaped by our relationship with God, not merely by our lineage or past. <a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_unfaithfulness.htm">Consequences of Unfaithfulness</a> Just as Israel faced consequences for their spiritual adultery, we must be aware of the repercussions of turning away from God. <a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a> Ezekiel's message is a call to recognize our sins and return to God with a repentant heart. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_despite_our_failures.htm">God's Faithfulness Despite Our Failures</a> Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God's covenant love remains steadfast, offering hope for restoration. <a href="/topical/l/learning_from_spiritual_ancestors.htm">Learning from Spiritual Ancestors</a> We should learn from the mistakes of those who came before us, striving to live in obedience and faithfulness to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_16.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 16</a> <a href="/q/how_do_ezekiel_45_1-6_lands_align_today.htm">How do the extensive land measurements in Ezekiel 45:1-6 align with known geography, given no historical proof of such boundaries?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_ezekiel_16_3_say_jerusalem's_ancestry_is_amorite_and_hittite.htm">How can Ezekiel 16:3 claim Jerusalem's ancestry is Amorite and Hittite when historical records emphasize Israel's descent from Abraham?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_god_allow_abandonment_in_ezekiel.htm">Why does Ezekiel 16:4-5 describe God allowing the abandonment of a newborn if He is portrayed elsewhere as compassionate and all-powerful?</a> <a href="/q/why_would_god_displace_nations_for_israel.htm">In Exodus 23:23-31, why would a just God command the displacement of entire nations for Israel's sake?</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>(45) Which lothed their husbands.--Israel, like Samaria and Sodom, being spiritually of Amorite and Hittite descent, they are represented as her sisters. A certain difficulty arises from the statement that they, too, "lothed their husbands and their children," and this is only removed by remembering that, notwithstanding their heathenism and long course of idolatry, they are still regarded as having gone astray from primeval revelation, and proved false to the only true God whom they once had known.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/16.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 45. - Ezekiel returns to the thought of the spiritual parentage of Jerusalem and Judah, as in ver. 3. Reading between the lines, we find something like an anticipation of St. Paul's thought that Jehovah was the God of the Gentiles as well as of the Jews (<a href="/romans/3-29.htm">Romans 3:29</a>). The Hittites and Sodom and Samaria, to whom she is compared, had all alike been guilty of unfaithfulness to their husbands. Their idolatry was therefore, like hers, an act of apostasy. Jehovah was their husband also, their children were his children (ver. 21). He claimed them as his own, had entered with them also into a relation which, though less close than that with Israel, was as that of the husband to the wife. The thought expands, as we shall see, in the sequel of the chapter. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>You אַ֔תְּ (’at) Pronoun - second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_859.htm">Strong's 859: </a> Thou and thee, ye and you are the daughter בַּת־ (baṯ-) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1323.htm">Strong's 1323: </a> A daughter of your mother, אִמֵּ֣ךְ (’im·mêḵ) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_517.htm">Strong's 517: </a> A mother, ) who despised גֹּעֶ֥לֶת (gō·‘e·leṯ) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1602.htm">Strong's 1602: </a> To detest, to reject her husband אִישָׁ֖הּ (’î·šāh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> A man as an individual, a male person and children. וּבָנֶ֑יהָ (ū·ḇā·ne·hā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son You אַ֗תְּ (’at) Pronoun - second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_859.htm">Strong's 859: </a> Thou and thee, ye and you are the sister וַאֲח֨וֹת (wa·’ă·ḥō·wṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_269.htm">Strong's 269: </a> Sister -- a sister of your sisters, אֲחוֹתֵ֜ךְ (’ă·ḥō·w·ṯêḵ) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_269.htm">Strong's 269: </a> Sister -- a sister who אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that despised גָּֽעֲ֙לוּ֙ (gā·‘ă·lū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1602.htm">Strong's 1602: </a> To detest, to reject their husbands אַנְשֵׁיהֶ֣ן (’an·šê·hen) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_582.htm">Strong's 582: </a> Man, mankind and children. וּבְנֵיהֶ֔ן (ū·ḇə·nê·hen) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son Your mother אִמְּכֶ֣ן (’im·mə·ḵen) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_517.htm">Strong's 517: </a> A mother, ) was a Hittite חִתִּ֔ית (ḥit·tîṯ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2850.htm">Strong's 2850: </a> Hittite -- a Chittite and your father וַאֲבִיכֶ֖ן (wa·’ă·ḇî·ḵen) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1.htm">Strong's 1: </a> Father an Amorite. אֱמֹרִֽי׃ (’ĕ·mō·rî) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_567.htm">Strong's 567: </a> Amorites -- perhaps 'mountain dwellers', a Canaanite tribe <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/16-45.htm">Ezekiel 16:45 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-45.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 16:45 You are the daughter of your mother (Ezek. 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