“See!
Everyone
Who uses proverbs
Will use this proverb
About you.
‘Like mother,
Like daughter.’
You are the daughter
Of your mother.
She loathed
Her husband.
She loathed
Her children.
You are the sister
Of your sisters.
They loathed
Their husbands,
They loathed
Their children.
Your mother was
A Hittite.
Your father was
An Amorite.”
Everyone who used proverbs would say of Jerusalem that she was ‘like mother, like daughter.’ It was and still is common to say that a daughter was like her mother. Thus Jerusalem was like her mother who disliked her husband and her children. On top of that, she was like her sisters, who also despised their husbands and their children. After all, her mother was a Hittite, while her father was an Amorite, both distinct Canaanites tribes, not Israelites.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 