Ezekiel 16:44

¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her daughter.

Behold, every one that useth proverbs {H4911} shall use this proverb {H4911} against thee, saying {H559}, As is the mother {H517}, so is her daughter {H1323}.

Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb against you, "Like mother, like daughter."

Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Ezekiel 18:2 (5 votes)

    What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

  • Ezekiel 18:3 (5 votes)

    [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel.

  • 1 Samuel 24:13 (3 votes)

    As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

  • Psalms 106:35 (3 votes)

    But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

  • Psalms 106:38 (3 votes)

    And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

  • Ezra 9:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

  • 2 Kings 17:15 (2 votes)

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.