Ezekiel 16:50 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. ”

• Ezekiel 16:50 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  As I saw good - Or, “as soon as I saw it.” Omit “good.” God saw and punished. Compare Genesis 18:21 .

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  as. saw good. Some codices read "when. saw it", with margin "as thou sawest". Better to omit "good". Compare Genesis 18:21 . as . according to what.

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  We must diligently attend to this passage; for God does not here excuse the wickedness of Sodom; but, abominable as that people was, he says that the Jews were yet more abandoned. We know why G...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good .

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. They were haughty - puffed up with prosperity. And committed, abomination before me....

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Foundling Child who became an Unfaithful Wife From Hosea onwards the prophets spoke of idolatry under the figure of unchastity. God was the husband of Israel, but she proved unfaithful to Him....

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  As I saw good. — The word good is not in the original, and should be omitted, and the particle translated when: “Therefore I took them away when I saw this.” Punishment followed upon the manife...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  JERUSALEM-AN IDEAL HISTORY Ezekiel 16:1-63 IN order to understand the place which the sixteenth chapter occupies in this section of the book, we must remember that a chief source of the antagon...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The second figure was that of the adulteress, and this the prophet wrought out at great length. Jerusalem was arraigned on account of her abominations, which were described under the figure of that s...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  What is here said comes in as the suitable conclusion of such daring rebellion as Israel had, in the preceding paragraph, been accused of. If Israel hath thus played the harlot, what shall arise, or...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And they were haughty ,.... Sodom and her daughters, the inhabitants of that place, and the cities adjacent; they lifted up themselves above God and man; they were above regarding the poor and needy...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good]. Ver. 50. And they were haughty. ] This sin of theirs is once more instanced as the root of t...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom, pride, fulness of bread , &c. The inhabitants of Sodom “abused that plenty which God gave them to pride and idleness, which gave rise to those enormities...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Wickedness of Jerusalem; Punishment of Jerusalem. B. C. 593.       44 Behold, every one...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Haughty; insufferably arrogant in their deportment towards good men, they vexed the soul of righteous Lot; and towards the angels, whom they assaulted in Lot's house; and towards God himself, as bo...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom; pride, fullnes...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ( Ezekiel 16:43-52 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 16:43 . “Hast fretted Me in all these things.” Instead of regarding their calamaties as the just punishment of their sin, they raged against the Lo...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  In this very remarkable chapter, God describes his ancient people Israel under the figure of an infant which had been cast away, but which he had cared for and tended, and upon which he had lavished...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 16:3 . Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite, a Chittith, a family of immodesty. The Israelites gloried in their descent from the holy patriarchs, heirs of the promises; but...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Pride, fulness of head, and abundance of idleness. The conflict in a luxurious age 1. We must be on our guard against the suggestions of pride and self-complacency, by endeavouring to form as h...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The section on which we now enter, with its companion picture in Ezekiel 23:1-26 ; forms the most terrible, one might almost say the most repellent, part of Ezekiel's prophetic utter...

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Punishment of the Lord Announced

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• Ezekiel 16:50 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 3:8-11 ; Luke 12:47 ; Luke 12:48 ; Matthew 12:41 ; Matthew 12:42 ; Romans 3:9-20

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