Ezekiel 16:44

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

See, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you, “Like mother, like daughter.”

Cross References

1 Kings 21:16

As soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab set out to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

2 Kings 17:11

there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord had carried away before them. They did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger;

2 Kings 17:15

They despised his statutes and his covenant that he had made with their ancestors and the warnings that he had given them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

2 Kings 21:9

But they did not listen; Manasseh misled them to do more evil than the nations had done that the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

Ezra 9:1

After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Ezekiel 12:22

Mortal, what is this proverb of yours about the land of Israel that says, “The days are prolonged, and every vision comes to nothing”?

Ezekiel 12:23

Tell them therefore, “Thus says the Lord God: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall use it no more as a proverb in Israel.” But say to them: “The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.

Ezekiel 16:3

and say: Thus says the Lord God 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 16:45

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children, and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the ancient proverb says, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness,’ but my hand shall not be against you.