Ezekiel 5:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that [are] round about 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] round about you;

Ver. 7. Because ye multiplied,] scil., Your transgressions and superstitions, or because ye have abounded with blessings, and made me so ill a requital. Some render it Quia tumultuastis vos plus quam vicinae gentes; and indeed there were many murders committed among them, and many revolts from foreign princes whom they had sworn to serve.

Neither have done according to the judgment of the nations.] But have outsinned them, qui deos suos quamvis viles et multos non mutant, who change not their gods (as you have done me, Jer 2:10-11), but follow the natural light of reason (some of them at least do so, Rom 2:14), which you have debauched. See 1Co 5:1 Ezekiel 16:46,48 .

Ezekiel 5:7

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about 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 round about you;