Ezekiel 16:3
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And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.and 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.
In other translations
And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.and 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.
Hebrew words
וְאָמַרְתָּve'amartaand you will sayH559כֹּה־koh-thusH3541אָמַר'amarhe saysH559אֲדֹנָי'adonai[the] LordH136יְהוִהyahwehYahwehH3069לִירוּשָׁלִַםlirushalimto JerusalemH3389מְכֹרֹתַיִךְmekhorotayikhorigins yourH4351וּמֹלְדֹתַיִךְumoledotayikhand birth<s> yourH4138מֵאֶרֶץme'eretz[were] from [the] land ofH776הַכְּנַעֲנִיhakena'anithe Canaanite[s]H3669אָבִיךְ'avikhfather yourH1הָאֱמֹרִיha'emori[was] <the> AmoriteH567וְאִמֵּךְve'imekhand mother yourH517חִתִּית׃chitit[was] a HittiteH2850
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Related verses
- Ezekiel 16:45Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.You 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.
- Isaiah 51:1-21 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.1 “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn. 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
- Deuteronomy 20:17But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,
- Nehemiah 9:7Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
- Genesis 15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
- 1 Kings 21:26And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)
- Luke 3:7Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Ezekiel 21:30Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
- Isaiah 1:10Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
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