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And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Ezekiel 16:50 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB They were haughty, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
  • BSB Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
  • NKJV And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
  • NASB So they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it.
  • NLT She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen.

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Quick answer

Sodom grew haughty and committed abomination, so God removed her. Pride ripened into open wickedness and judgment.

Overview

From proud ease (verse 49) Sodom advanced to 'abomination before me,' and God 'took them away' (Genesis 19). The progression from pride to gross sin to destruction is instructive. Yet the point remains comparative: even Sodom's judged wickedness was less than Jerusalem's, heightening the latter's guilt.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Gen 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  • Gen 19:5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
  • Gen 18:20And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
  • Gen 19:24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
  • 2 Kgs 23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
  • Deut 29:23And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
  • Prov 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
  • Jer 49:18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
  • Job 18:15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
  • Zeph 2:9Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
  • Amos 4:11I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
  • Isa 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • Lam 4:6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
  • Lev 18:22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
  • Rom 1:26–27For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
  • Deut 23:17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
  • Jer 20:16And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
  • Jer 50:40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
  • Rev 18:9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
  • Prov 16:18Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
  • 2 Pet 2:6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

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