And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
- NASB Yet you have not merely walked in their ways and committed their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you also acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.
- NLT But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption.
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Quick answer
She did not merely match her sisters' sins but quickly became more corrupt than they. Greater light brought greater guilt.
Overview
Jerusalem, with the temple, the law, and God's covenant, should have been far holier than Sodom and Samaria. Instead she outdid them in corruption. The principle is sobering: privilege and revelation increase accountability (compare Luke 12:48). Those nearest to God's grace incur the deepest guilt when they betray it.
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- 2 Kgs 21:9But 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.
- Ezek 16:51Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.
- Ezek 5:6–7But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
- Ezek 16:48As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.
- 1 Kgs 16:31And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.
- John 15:21–22But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
- Ezek 8:17“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
- 2 Kgs 21:16Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
- 1 Cor 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
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