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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 5:7

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye (f) multiplied more than the nations that [are] around you, [and] have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that [are] around you;

(f) Because your idols are in greater number, and your superstitions more than among the professed idolaters, read (Isaiah 65:11) or he condemns their ingratitude in respect to his benefits.

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