Ezekiel 5:6 References
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'But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes amore than the lands which surround her; for they have brejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.'
a 2 Kings 17:8-20, Ezekiel 16:47, Ezekiel 16:48, Ezekiel 16:51
2 Kings 17
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and awalked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs bof the kings of Israel which they had introduced.
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The sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against the Lord their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from awatchtower to fortified city.
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aThey set for themselves sacred pillars and bAsherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
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and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did which the Lord had carried away to exile before them; and they did evil things provoking the Lord.
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Yet the aLord warned Israel and Judah bthrough all His prophets and cevery seer, saying, "dTurn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets."
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However, they did not listen, but astiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
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aThey rejected His statutes and bHis covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And cthey followed vanity and dbecame vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the eLord had commanded them not to do like them.
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They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even atwo calves, and bmade an Asherah and cworshiped all the host of heaven and dserved Baal.
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Then athey made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and bpracticed divination and enchantments, and csold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him.
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So the Lord was very angry with Israel and aremoved them from His sight; bnone was left except the tribe of Judah.
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Also aJudah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but bwalked in the customs which Israel had introduced.
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The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and agave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.
Ezekiel 16
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"Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were atoo little, you acted bmore corruptly in all your conduct than they.
Ezekiel 16
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"As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "Sodom, your sister and her daughters have anot done as you and your daughters have done.