Ezekiel 16:44
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’”
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“Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother--her daughter!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 16:44 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 24:13As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.
- 1 Kings 21:16And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- 2 Kings 17:11They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.
- 2 Kings 17:15They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
- 2 Kings 21:9But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
- Ezra 9:1After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
- Psalms 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
- Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?
- Ezekiel 16:3and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
- Ezekiel 16:45You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
- Ezekiel 18:2“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
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