Ezekiel 16:48

48 ¹As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister ²Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

Ezekiel 16:48 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:48

[As] I live, saith the Lord God
This is an oath, which the Lord God swore; who, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, by his life; and this he did to confirm what he had and was about to say, that the sins of Judah were greater than those of Samaria and Sodom; which might not be easily believed, but it was as true as he was the living God: Sodom thy sister hath, or done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast
done, thou and thy daughters;
that is, the inhabitants of Sodom, and of the villages adjacent, as the Targum, had not committed such gross iniquities as the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the towns and villages about it, and of other cities of Judah.

Ezekiel 16:48 In-Context

46 And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

47 Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

48 As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

50 They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

Cross References

• 1. 16:48 ch. 5:11; 14:16, 18, 20; 17:16, 19; 18:3; 20:3, 33; Isa. 49:18; Zeph. 2:9
• 2. 16:48 ver. 47; [Matt. 10:15; 11:24]