7Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
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I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.
Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. …
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)God had often spoken to Ezekiel, and by him to the people, to this effect, but now his word comes again ; for God speaks the same thing once, yea, twice , yea, many a time, and all little enough, and too little, for man perceives it not . Note, To convince sinners of the evil of sin, and of their misery and danger by reason of it, there is need of line upon line , so loth we are to know the worst…
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