Bible Strands
Ezekiel 16:48
As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did as you and your daughters have done.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks through Ezekiel to Jerusalem, pronouncing judgment during a prophetic indictment of Israel's covenant betrayal.
The words — The oath formula חַי־אָ֗נִי (chai-ani) literally translates to "by my life," establishing divine certainty for the following declaration.
The thread — This Sodom comparison reappears in Matthew 10:15 and Matthew 11:23, where Jesus uses Sodom as a baseline for measuring the severity of eschatological judgment.
Why it lands — The text states Jerusalem's sins exceed Sodom's, stripping away any ground for moral comparison and demanding acknowledgment of the standard of divine assessment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Cross-references
- Matthew 10:15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
- Matthew 11:23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
- Mark 6:11 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that place, as a testimony against them.”
- Luke 10:12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
- Acts 7:52 Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—