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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 16:49 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 16:49 |
Strong Concordance |
Behold, this was the iniquity [05771] of thy sister [0269] Sodom [05467], pride [01347], fulness [07653] of bread [03899], and abundance [07962] of idleness [08252] was in her and in her daughters [01323], neither did she strengthen [02388] the hand [03027] of the poor [06041] and needy [034]. |
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King James |
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
pride--inherited by Moab, her offspring (Isa 16:6; Jer 48:26), and by Ammon (Jer 49:4). God, the heart-searcher, here specifies as Sodom's sin, not merely her notorious lusts, but the secret spring of them, "pride" flowing from "fullness of bread," caused by the fertility of the soil (Gen 13:10), and producing "idleness."
abundance of idleness--literally, "the secure carelessness of ease" or idleness.
neither did she strengthen . . . the poor--Pride is always cruel; it arrogates to itself all things, and despises brethren, for whose needs it therefore has no feeling; as Moab had not for the outcast Jews (Isa 16:3-4; Jer 48:27; Luk 16:19-21; Jam 5:1-5). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| This was - The fountain and occasion of all. Fulness of bread - Excess in eating and drinking. Strengthen - She refused to help strangers. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| This was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom - If we are to take this place literally, Sodom was guilty of other crimes besides that for which she appears to have been especially punished; in addition to her unnatural crime, She is charged with pride, luxury, idleness, and uncharitableness; and these were sufficient to sink any city to the bottomless pit. |
1 Go to [33] now [3568], ye rich men [4145], weep [2799] and howl [3649] for [1909] your [5216] miseries [5004] that shall come upon [1904] you.
2 Your [5216] riches [4149] are corrupted [4595], and [2532] your [5216] garments [2440] are [1096] motheaten [4598].
3 Your [5216] gold [5557] and [2532] silver [696] is cankered [2728]; and [2532] the rust [2447] of them [846] shall be [2071] a witness [3142] against [1519] you [5213], and [2532] shall eat [5315] your [5216] flesh [4561] as it were [5613] fire [4442]. Ye have heaped treasure together [2343] for [1722] the last [2078] days [2250].
4 Behold [2400], the hire [3408] of the labourers [2040] who [3588] have reaped down [270] your [5216] fields [5561], which [3588] is of [575] you [5216] kept back by fraud [650], crieth [2896]: and [2532] the cries [995] of them which have reaped [2325] are entered [1525] into [1519] the ears [3775] of the Lord [2962] of sabaoth [4519].
5 Ye have lived in pleasure [5171] on [1909] the earth [1093], and [2532] been wanton [4684]; ye have nourished [5142] your [5216] hearts [2588], as [5613] in [1722] a day [2250] of slaughter [4967].
19 [1161] There was [2258] a certain [5100] rich [4145] man [444], which [2532] was clothed [1737] in purple [4209] and [2532] fine linen [1040], and fared [2165] sumptuously [2988] every [2596] day [2250]:
20 And [1161] there was [2258] a certain [5100] beggar [4434] named [3686] Lazarus [2976], which [3739] was laid [906] at [4314] his [846] gate [4440], full of sores [1669],
21 And [2532] desiring [1937] to be fed [5526] with [575] the crumbs [5589] which [3588] fell [4098] from [575] the rich man's [4145] table [5132]: moreover [235] [2532] the dogs [2965] came [2064] and licked [621] his [846] sores [1668].
27 For was not Israel [03478] a derision [07814] unto thee? was he found [04672] among thieves [01590]? for since [01767] thou spakest [01697] of him, thou skippedst [05110] for joy.
3 Take [0935] counsel [06098], execute [06213] judgment [06415]; make [07896] thy shadow [06738] as the night [03915] in the midst [08432] of the noonday [06672]; hide [05641] the outcasts [05080]; bewray [01540] not him that wandereth [05074].
4 Let mine outcasts [05080] dwell [01481] with thee, Moab [04124]; be [01933] thou a covert [05643] to them from the face [06440] of the spoiler [07703]: for the extortioner [04160] is at an end [0656], the spoiler [07701] ceaseth [03615], the oppressors [07429] are consumed [08552] out of the land [0776].
10 And Lot [03876] lifted up [05375] his eyes [05869], and beheld [07200] all the plain [03603] of Jordan [03383], that it was well watered [04945] every where, before [06440] the LORD [03068] destroyed [07843] Sodom [05467] and Gomorrah [06017], even as the garden [01588] of the LORD [03068], like the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], as thou comest [0935] unto Zoar [06820].
4 Wherefore gloriest [01984] thou in the valleys [06010], thy flowing [02100] valley [06010], O backsliding [07728] daughter [01323]? that trusted [0982] in her treasures [0214], saying, Who shall come [0935] unto me?
26 Make ye him drunken [07937]: for he magnified [01431] himself against the LORD [03068]: Moab [04124] also shall wallow [05606] in his vomit [06892], and he also shall be in derision [07814].
6 We have heard [08085] of the pride [01347] of Moab [04124]; he is very [03966] proud [01341]: even of his haughtiness [01346], and his pride [01347], and his wrath [05678]: but his lies [0907] shall not be so.