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And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
Ezekiel 16:50 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB They were haughty, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
  • KJV And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
  • BSB Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
  • 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 13:13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
  • Gen 19:5They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
  • Gen 18:20Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
  • Gen 19:24Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
  • 2 Kgs 23:7He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
  • Deut 29:23and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;
  • Prov 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
  • Jer 49:18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.
  • Job 18:15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
  • Zeph 2:9Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
  • Amos 4:11“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
  • Isa 13:19Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • Lam 4:6For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.
  • Lev 18:22“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
  • Rom 1:26–27For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
  • Deut 23:17There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
  • Jer 20:16Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
  • Jer 50:40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “so no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.
  • Rev 18:9The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,
  • Prov 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
  • 2 Pet 2:6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

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