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Ezekiel 16:44

Ezekiel 16:44 is verse 44 of Ezekiel chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

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King James Version

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

World English Bible

“‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’

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Ezekiel 16:42–46 · Berean Standard Bible

42 So I will lay to rest My wrath against you, and My jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be calm and no longer angry.

43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?

44 Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

45 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.

46 Your 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.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Ezekiel 18:2

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?

Ezekiel 18:3

As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.

Ezekiel 16:3

and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Ezekiel 16:45

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.

1 Kings 21:16

And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

2 Kings 17:11

They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.

2 Kings 17:15

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 themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

2 Kings 21:9

But 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.

Ezra 9:1

After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Psalms 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

Psalms 106:36

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

Psalms 106:37

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Psalms 106:38

They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

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