8Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
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And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
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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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