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Ezekiel 5:6

Ezekiel 5:6
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations,.... So they changed their glory for that which did not profit; and the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

She hath changed my judgments - God shows the reason why he deals with Jerusalem in greater severity than with the surrounding nations; because she was more wicked than they. Bad and idolatrous as…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezekiel 5:5-17

We have here the explanation of the foregoing similitude: This is Jerusalem. Thus it is usual in scripture language to give the name of the thing signified to the sign; as when Christ said, This is my…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Read: And she hath rebelled against my Judgments to do wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes. "Judgments" is ordinances; and "they" refers to the people, who compose Jerusalem.