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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 5:7 - 5:7
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multiplied - rather, “have been more abundantly outrageous”; literally, “to tumultuate”; to have an extravagant rage for idols.
neither have done according to the judgments of the nations - have not been as tenacious of the true religion as the nations have been of the false. The heathen “changed” not their gods, but the Jews changed Jehovah for idols (see Eze 5:6, “changed My judgments into wickedness,” that is, idolatry, Jer 2:11). The Chaldean version and the Masora support the negative. Others omit it (as it is omitted in Eze 11:12), and translate, “but have done according to the judgments,” etc. However, both Eze 11:12 and also this verse are true. They in one sense “did according to the heathen,” namely, in all that was bad; in another, namely, in that which was good, zeal for religion, they did not. Eze 5:9 also proves the negative to be genuine; because in changing their religion, they have not done as the nations which have not changed theirs, “I (also) will do in thee that which I have not done.”