Ezekiel 23:31

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“Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’”

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BSBPD

“Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“In the way of thy sister thou hast walked, And I have given her cup into thy hand.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 23:31 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Kings 17:19and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
  2. 2 Kings 21:13I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
  3. Jeremiah 3:8She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
  4. Jeremiah 7:14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
  5. Jeremiah 25:15This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
  6. Ezekiel 16:47And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
  7. Ezekiel 23:13And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path.
  8. Daniel 9:12You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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