יחזקאל 16:46

Hebrew Modern Translation

ואחותך הגדולה שמרון היא ובנותיה היושבת על שמאולך ואחותך הקטנה ממך היושבת מימינך סדם ובנותיה׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
ואחותך הגדולה שמרון היא ובנותיה היושבת על שמאולך ואחותך הקטנה ממך היושבת מימינך סדם ובנותיה

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
וַאֲחוֹתֵ֨ךְ הַגְּדוֹלָ֤ה שֹֽׁמְרוֹן֙ הִ֣יא וּבְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ הַיּוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת עַל־שְׂמֹאולֵ֑ךְ וַאֲחוֹתֵ֞ךְ הַקְּטַנָּ֣ה מִמֵּ֗ךְ הַיּוֹשֶׁ֙בֶת֙ מִֽימִינֵ֔ךְ סְדֹ֖ם וּבְנוֹתֶֽיהָ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַאֲחוֹתֵךְ הַגְּדוֹלָה שֹֽׁמְרוֹן הִיא וּבְנוֹתֶיהָ הַיּוֹשֶׁבֶת עַל־שְׂמֹאולֵךְ וַאֲחוֹתֵךְ הַקְּטַנָּה מִמֵּךְ הַיּוֹשֶׁבֶת מִֽימִינֵךְ סְדֹם וּבְנוֹתֶֽיהָ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

elder: Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 23:4, Ezekiel 23:11, Ezekiel 23:31-33, Jeremiah 3:8-11, Micah 1:5

thy younger sister: Heb. thy sister lesser than thou, Ezekiel 16:48, Ezekiel 16:49, Ezekiel 16:53-56, Ezekiel 16:61, Genesis 13:11-13, Genesis 18:20-33, Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:25, Deuteronomy 29:23, Deuteronomy 32:32, Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 1:10, Jeremiah 23:14, Lamentations 4:6, *marg. Luke 17:28-30, 2 Peter 2:6, Jude 1:7, Revelation 11:8

her daughters: Ezekiel 16:27, *marg. Ezekiel 26:6, Genesis 14:8, Genesis 19:29, Hosea 11:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:13 - But the Numbers 21:25 - villages Song of Solomon 8:8 - a little Jeremiah 3:7 - her treacherous Jeremiah 49:2 - her daughters Ezekiel 21:16 - Go Ezekiel 23:2 - two Hosea 7:1 - wickedness Colossians 3:6 - children

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thine elder sister [is] Samaria,.... The metropolis of the ten tribes; "sister" to the Jews, because of the same descent, having one and the same father; the "elder" or "greater" x, because more in number and power; the kingdom of Israel consisted of ten tribes, and the kingdom of Judah but of two; and the ten tribes also were the first in the apostasy from the true worship of God:

she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand; as Samaria the sister was the metropolis of the ten tribes, her daughters are the other cities and towns belonging thereunto; and so the Targum renders it, she and her villages; these were situated to the north of the land of Israel, as Judah was to the south, which with the Jews were left and right; as a man standing with his face to the east has the north on his left and the south on his right side:

and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters; where Lot the kinsman of Abraham lived, and from whom sprung the Ammonites and Moabites. Sodom was a lesser kingdom than that of Judah, and which lay to the south; that is, to the right of it; even that and the other cities, which perished with it, called her daughters, as Admah, Zeboim, &c.

x הגדולה "major", V. L. Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The temple looked to the east. Samaria was on its left, and Sodom on its right hand.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 16:46. Thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left — It is supposed that the prophet by Sodom in this place means the Israelites that dwelt beyond Jordan, in the land of the Moabites and Ammonites; or rather of the Moabites and Ammonites themselves. Literally, Sodom could not be called the younger sister of Jerusalem, as it existed before Jerusalem had a name. In looking east from Jerusalem, Samaria was on the left, and Sodom on the right hand; that is, the first was on the north, the second on the south of Jerusalem.