Ezekiel 16:47-48
Context16:47 Have you not copied their behavior 1 and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time 2 you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were! 16:48 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.
Ezekiel 20:32
Context20:32 “‘What you plan 3 will never happen. You say, “We will be 4 like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.” 5
Amos 3:2
Context3:2 “I have chosen 6 you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”
[16:47] 1 tn Heb “walked in their ways.”
[16:47] 2 tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.
[20:32] 3 tn Heb “what comes upon your mind.”
[20:32] 4 tn The Hebrew could also read: “Let us be.”
[20:32] 5 tn Heb “serving wood and stone.”
[3:2] 6 tn Heb “You only have I known.” The Hebrew verb יָדַע (yada’) is used here in its covenantal sense of “recognize in a special way.”