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Ezekiel 16:55

in Ezekiel 16

And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

KJV

When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

This verse in Ezekiel 16

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 55) And your sister Sodom and her daughters will return to their former state. And Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state. And you and your daughters will return to your former state. LXX: And your sister Sodom and her daughters will be restored as they were at the beginning, and Samaria and her daughters will be restored as they were at the beginning. And you and your daughters will be restored as you were from the beginning.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

When thy sisters, Sodom, and her daughters, shall return to their former estate,....

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַאֲחוֹתַ֗יִךְand sisters your

    vaachotayikhH269 →114 times

  • סְדֹ֤םSodom

    sedomH5467 →39 times

  • וּבְנוֹתֶ֙יהָ֙and daughters her

    uvenoteihaH1323 →588 times

  • תָּשֹׁ֣בְןָthey will return

    tashoenaH7725 →1056 times

  • לְקַדְמָתָ֔ןto former state their

    lekadmatanH6927 →6 times

  • וְשֹֽׁמְרוֹן֙and Samaria

    veshomeronH8111 →109 times

  • וּבְנוֹתֶ֔יהָand daughters her

    uvenoteihaH1323 →588 times

  • תָּשֹׁ֖בְןָthey will return

    tashoenaH7725 →1056 times

  • לְקַדְמָתָ֑ןto former state their

    lekadmatanH6927 →6 times

  • וְאַתְּ֙and you

    veatH859 →1094 times

  • וּבְנוֹתַ֔יִךְand daughters your

    uvenotayikhH1323 →588 times

  • תְּשֻׁבֶ֖ינָהyou will return

    teshuveinahH7725 →1056 times

  • לְקַדְמַתְכֶֽן׃to former state your

    lekadmatkhenH6927 →6 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 36:11

    I will fill you with people and animals, and they will multiply and be fruitful. I will make you as inhabited as you once were, and I will make you prosper more than before.…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 33:12

      This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

    • Jeremiah 23:5–8

      Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

    • Micah 7:14

      Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

    • Jeremiah 31:27

      “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and of beast.

    • Ezekiel 37:13

      Then you, My people, will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.

  • Through

    Malachi 3:4

    Then the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will please the LORD, as in days of old and years gone by.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 7:1–3

      When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

    • Isaiah 56:7

      I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called…

    • Zechariah 8:3

      This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

This page draws on Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).