Yǐsījiēshū 16:46

46 Nǐde zǐ zǐ Shìsǎ Mǎlìyà , tā hé tāde zhòng nǚ zhù zaì nǐ zuǒbiān . nǐde meìmei shì Suǒduōmǎ , tā hé tāde zhòng nǚ zhù zaì nǐ yòubiān .

Yǐsījiēshū 16:46 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:46

And thine elder sister [is] Samaria
The metropolis of the ten tribes; "sister" to the Jews, because of the same descent, having one and the same father; the "elder" or "greater" ^F24, because more in number and power; the kingdom of Israel consisted of ten tribes, and the kingdom of Judah but of two; and the ten tribes also were the first in the apostasy from the true worship of God: she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand;
as Samaria the sister was the metropolis of the ten tribes, her daughters are the other cities and towns belonging thereunto; and so the Targum renders it, she and her villages; these were situated to the north of the land of Israel, as Judah was to the south, which with the Jews were left and right; as a man standing with his face to the east has the north on his left and the south on his right side: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, [is] Sodom and
her daughters;
where Lot the kinsman of Abraham lived, and from whom sprung the Ammonites and Moabites. Sodom was a lesser kingdom than that of Judah, and which lay to the south; that is, to the right of it; even that and the other cities, which perished with it, called her daughters, as Admah, Zeboim

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (hlwdgh) "major", V. L. Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius.

Yǐsījiēshū 16:46 In-Context

44 Fán shuō súyǔ de bì yòng súyǔ gōngjī nǐ , shuō , mǔqin zĕnyàng , nǚér yĕ zĕnyàng .

45 Nǐ zhēng shì nǐ mǔqin de nǚér , yànqì zhàngfu hé érnǚ . nǐ zhēng shì nǐ zǐ meì de zǐ meì , yànqì zhàngfu hé érnǚ . nǐ mǔqin shì Hèrén , nǐ fùqin shì Yàmólìrén .

46 Nǐde zǐ zǐ Shìsǎ Mǎlìyà , tā hé tāde zhòng nǚ zhù zaì nǐ zuǒbiān . nǐde meìmei shì Suǒduōmǎ , tā hé tāde zhòng nǚ zhù zaì nǐ yòubiān .

47 Nǐ méiyǒu xiàofǎ tāmen de xíngwéi , yĕ méiyǒu zhào tāmen kĕ zēng de shì qù zuò , nǐ yǐ nà wèi xiǎoshì , nǐ yīqiè suǒ xíng de dǎo bǐ tāmen gēng huaì .

48 Zhǔ Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒ zhǐ zhe wǒde yǒngshēng qǐshì , nǐ meìmei Suǒduōmǎ yǔ tāde zhòng nǚ shàng wèi xíng nǐ hé nǐ zhòng nǚ suǒ xíng de shì .