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- Ezekiel
- Chapter 16
- Verse 47
Ezekiel 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
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Gill's Exposition
As I live, saith the Lord God,.... This is an oath, which the Lord God swore; who, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, by his life; and this he did to confirm what he had and…
The prophet here further shows Jerusalem her abominations, by comparing her with those places that had gone before her, and showing that she was worse than any of them, and therefore should, like…
The depravity of Jerusalem exceeded that of either of her sisters: Sodom (Eze 16:48-50), Samaria (Eze 16:16).
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