Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:50

50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

insufferably arrogant in their deportment towards good men, they vexed the Soul of Righteous Lot, and towards the Angels whom they assaulted in Lot's house, and towards God himself, as both in this verse, and in Gen. 13.13.

Worked, as if it were their Trade.

The whole of these mens Life was as one continued act of the highest wickedness.

Either against God, or openly and publickly as Is. 3.9.

Destroy'd their State, Cities, People, and Countrey, turned them into a Lake of dead and deadly water, or rather, Bitumen and Sulphur.

In a way none could have suspected, and for ought I know, none ever saw before or since: If you enquire how Ierusalems sins were greater than Sodoms, I wou'd 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 shou'd do, against admonitions by the mouth of Prophets, and against examples of God's vengeance on Sodom, and the Cities of the plain.

Marginal references: Gen. 18.20.; Gen. 19.24.