This verse is often misinterpreted to downplay Sodom's sexual sins, claiming their judgment stemmed solely from pride, gluttony, idleness, and neglecting the poor rather than homosexuality, as if Jerusalem's worse sins somehow excused or redefined Sodom's abominations. In reality, the passage heightens Jerusalem's culpability by comparing it unfavorably to Sodom amid a broader allegory of infidelity, without negating Sodom's full wickedness—including the 'abominations' echoed from Genesis—but warning that hypocrisy under greater light incurs even stricter judgment.
Ezekiel 16:48
King James Version (1769)
48 As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Ezekiel 16:48 delivers God's indictment against Jerusalem, portraying its sins as surpassing even those of infamous Sodom, to emphasize that spiritual privileges heighten moral accountability. Having received divine election, laws, and prosperity, Jerusalem's pursuit of idolatry, pride, excess, and immorality represented a profound betrayal, making their guilt greater than Sodom's despite the latter's notorious depravity, and illustrating the principle that to whom much is given, much is required in faithfulness to God.