Ezekiel 16:46-48
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46 Your older sister was Samaria. She lived to the north of you with her daughters. Your younger sister was Sodom.[a] She lived to the south of you with her daughters. 47 You did all the terrible things they did, but you also did much worse! 48 I am the Lord God. As I live, I swear that your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as many bad things as you and your daughters.
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- Ezekiel 16:46 Samaria … Sodom Ezekiel is saying the people in Judah are just as evil as the people who lived in Samaria and Sodom—and those people were so evil that God completely destroyed those cities.
Ezekiel 16:46-48
New International Version
46 Your older sister(A) was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.(B) 47 You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.(C) 48 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign(D) Lord, your sister Sodom(E) and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.(F)
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