Verse 44

“‘Observe– everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you:“Like mother, like daughter.”

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 18:2-3 : 2 “What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel,“‘The fathers eat sour grapes And the children’s teeth become numb?’ 3 “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will not quote this proverb in Israel anymore!
  • 1 Sam 24:13 : 13 It’s like the old proverb says:‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.
  • 1 Kgs 21:16 : 16 When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
  • 2 Kgs 17:11 : 11 They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.
  • 2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the LORD. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.
  • 2 Kgs 21:9 : 9 But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed from before the Israelites.
  • Ezra 9:1 : 1 A Prayer of Ezra Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said,“The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
  • Ps 106:35-38 : 35 They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways. 36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. 37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. 38 They shed innocent blood– the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.
  • Ezek 12:22 : 22 “Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel,‘The days pass slowly, and every vision fails’?
  • Ezek 16:3 : 3 and say,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD 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.
  • Ezek 16:45 : 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.