Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 16:50
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
50. as I saw good ] Or, when I saw it. Gen 18:21, I “will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry which is come up unto me.”
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
As I saw good – Or, as soon as I saw it. Omit good. God saw and punished. Compare Gen 18:21.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Haughty; insufferably arrogant in their deportment towards good men, they vexed the soul of righteous Lot; and towards the angels, whom they assaulted in Lots house; and towards God himself, as both in this verse, and in Gen 13:13.
Committed; worked, as if it were their trade.
Abomination; the whole of these mens life was as one continued act of the highest wickedness.
Before me; either against God, or openly and publicly, as Isa 3:9.
I took them away; destroyed their state, cities, people, and country, turned them into a lake of dead and deadly water, or rather bitumen and sulphur.
As I saw good; in a way none could have suspected, and, for aught I know, none ever saw before or since. If you inquire how Jerusalems sins were greater than Sodoms, I would answer, if not in the things done, yet in the aggravating circumstances of them; against redeeming mercy, against the law of God, which forbade what they did, and told them what they should do, against admonitions by the mouth of prophets, and against examples of Gods vengeance on Sodom and the cities of the plain.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
50. haughtypuffed up withprosperity.
abomination beforeme“sinners before the Lord” (Ge13:13); said of those whose sin is so heinous as to cry out toGod for immediate judgments; presumptuous sins, daring God to theface (Gen 18:20; Gen 19:5).
I took them away (Ge19:24).
as I saw goodrather,”according to what I saw”; referring to Ge18:21, where God says, “I will go down, and seewhether they have done altogether according to the cry of itwhich is come unto Me.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And they were haughty,…. Sodom and her daughters, the inhabitants of that place, and the cities adjacent; they lifted up themselves above God and man; they were above regarding the poor and needy; and were elated and swelled with their plenty and prosperity, and behaved very insolently, both to fellow citizens and strangers; see
Ge 19:4;
and committed abomination before me; perhaps referring to that sin, which has its name from them; a sin abominable to God, and scandalous to human nature; and which they committed openly and publicly, neither fearing God, nor regarding men; and are said to be sinners before the Lord, Ge 13:13;
therefore I took them away as I saw [good]; both as to time and manner, as he in his sovereignty thought most fit and proper, by raining fire and brimstone on them, and setting them forth as an example of the vengeance of eternal fire: or, “when I saw” c; their sin and wickedness, as soon as he saw it; see Ge 18:20. The Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions render it, “as thou sawest”, or “hast seen”; appealing to the Jews themselves, who were very well acquainted with the fact; for the destruction of Sodom was notorious and flagrant.
c “cum vidi”, Cocceius; so some in Vatablus; “postea quam”, Tigurine version, Piscator, Starckius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
We must diligently attend to this passage; for God does not here excuse the wickedness of Sodom; but, abominable as that people was, he says that the Jews were yet more abandoned. We know why God inflicted his vengeance in a terrible manner against the Sodomites and their neighbors, for that was a fearful example; and Judea says that it was a kind of mirror of the wrath of God which awaits all the impious, (Jud 1:7😉 and Scripture often recalls us to that proof of God’s judgement: but we must see how Sodom rushed forward to that degree of licentiousness so as to be horrified by no enormity. God says that they began by pride, and surely pride is the mother of all contempt of God and of all cruelty. Let us learn, then, that we cannot be restrained by the fear of God, unless moderation and humility reign within us. Pride, we know, has two horns, so to speak; one is, when men forget their own condition, and claim to themselves not only more than is right, but what God alone calls his own. This, then, is one horn of pride, when men, trusting in their dignity, excellence, plenty, and wealth, are intoxicated by false imaginations, so as to think themselves equal to God. Now, another horn of pride is, when they do not acknowledge their vices, and despise others in comparison with themselves, and please themselves in enormities, just as if they were free from any future account. Since, therefore, pride is contained in these two clauses, when men arrogate too much to themselves, and thus are blind to their own vices, each of these is doubtless condemned in the Sodomites, since they first raised themselves by a rash confidence, and then refused to subject themselves to God, and rebelled against him as if they could shake off his yoke.
He afterwards adds fullness of bread. But the Prophet seems to condemn in the Sodomites what was not blamable in itself: for when God feeds us bountifully, fullness is not to be considered a crime; but he takes it here for immoderate gluttony; for those who have abundance are often luxurious, and nothing is more rare than self-restraint when materials for luxury are supplied to us. Hence fullness of bread is here taken for intemperance, since the Sodomites were so addicted to gluttony and drunkenness, that they gratified their appetites worse than the brutes, who do retain some moderation, for they are content with their own food: but men’s covetousness is altogether insatiable. Let us observe, then, that by fullness of bread we are to understand that intemperance in which profane men indulge when God supplies them bountifully with the means of living; for they do not consider why they abound in wine, and corn, and abundance of all things, but they drown themselves in luxuries with a blind and brutal impulse. Hence such greediness, so inflaming to the spirits of the Sodomites, is added to pride, that they arrogate to themselves more than is just. He afterwards adds, and rest; תולש, sheloth: some translate it abundance, but almost everywhere it means peace; the noun טקש, sheket, which is added next, means properly rest; so that it will be the peace of rest or ease, and this seems without blame: for why shall we not be permitted to enjoy ease, if no one molests or troubles us? nay, it is reckoned among God’s blessings: you shall sleep, and no one shall frighten thee. (Lev 26:6.) Since God, therefore, wishes this to be considered among his blessings, that the faithful should sleep soundly, without any anxiety or trouble, why is Sodom condemned for thus enjoying ease and peace? But here its excess is pointed out, not its true use, since the use of peace is to render our minds tranquil, that we may return thanks to God, and dwell calmly under his sway. But how do the reprobate act? They grow brutish, so to speak, in their own peacefulness. Hence sloth is in this passage meant by the peacefulness of ease, and God means that the Sodomites were intoxicated by their luxuries when they enjoyed peace. We must put off the remainder.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(50) As I saw good.The word good is not in the original, and should be omitted, and the particle translated when: Therefore I took them away when I saw this. Punishment followed upon the manifestation of their sin. (Comp. Gen. 18:21.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
Ver. 50. And they were haughty. ] This sin of theirs is once more instanced as the root of the rest, the hate of heaven, and gate to hell.
And committed abomination before me.
Therefore I took them away as I saw good,
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
as I saw good. Some codices read “when I saw it”, with margin “as thou sawest”. Better to omit “good”. Compare Gen 18:21.
as = according to what.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
and committed: Gen 13:13, Gen 18:20, Gen 19:5, Lev 18:22, Deu 23:17, 2Ki 23:7, Pro 16:18, Pro 18:12, Rom 1:26, Rom 1:27, Jud 1:7
therefore: Gen 19:24, Deu 29:23, Job 18:15, Isa 13:19, Jer 20:16, Jer 49:18, Jer 50:40, Lam 4:6, Amo 4:11, Zep 2:9, 2Pe 2:6, Rev 18:9
Reciprocal: Gen 19:27 – to the Lev 18:27 – General Pro 30:9 – I be full Isa 3:16 – are haughty Jer 5:7 – I had fed Jer 13:9 – the pride Jer 48:11 – emptied Mat 24:38 – they Luk 17:28 – General Rom 2:12 – For 1Ti 6:17 – that they
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 16:50. The history of Sodoms destruction is In Genesis 19.