Ezekiel 5:6

Ezekiel 5:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.
• New King James Version (NKJV)She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.’
• New Living Translation (NLT)but she has rebelled against my regulations and decrees and has been even more wicked than the surrounding nations. She has refused to obey the regulations and decrees I gave her to follow.

Context of Ezekiel 5:6

4Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel. 5“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. Yet in her wickedness she has rebelled against my laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her. She has rejected my laws and has not followed my decrees. 7“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even conformed to the standards of the nations around you. 8“Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 5:6 word by word

וַתֶּ֨מֶר אֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֤י לְרִשְׁעָה֙ מִן־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם וְאֶ֨ת־חֻקּוֹתַ֔י מִן־הָאֲרָצ֖וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר סְבִיבוֹתֶ֑יהָ כִּ֤י בְמִשְׁפָּטַי֙ מָאָ֔סוּ וְחֻקּוֹתַ֖י לֹא־הָלְכ֥וּ בָהֶֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And she hath changedמָרָהmârâh · to rebelH4784
• my judgmentsמִשְׁפָּטmishpâţ · justice: judgementH4941
• into wickednessרִשְׁעָהrish‛âh · wickednessH7564
• more than the nationsגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• and my statutesחֻקָּהchûqqâh · statuteH2708
• more than the countriesאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• round aboutסָבִיבsâbîyb sebîybâh · aroundH5439
• her: for they have refusedמָאַסmâ'as · to rejectH3988
• they have not walkedהָלַךְhâlak · to go: walkH1980

Cross-references for Ezekiel 5:6

• Ezekiel 16:47You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.
• Deuteronomy 32:15Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.
• 2 Kings 17:8and followed the practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.
• Psalms 106:20They exchanged their glorious God for an image of a bull, which eats grass.
• Romans 1:23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
• 1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.
• Jude 1:4For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
• Nehemiah 9:16“But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and they did not obey your commands.
• Psalms 78:10they did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.
• Jeremiah 5:3Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
• Jeremiah 8:5Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
• Jeremiah 9:6You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.
• Jeremiah 11:10They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.
• Zechariah 7:11“But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 5:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6She hath changed my judgments - God shows the reason why he deals with Jerusalem in greater severity than with the surrounding nations; because she was more wicked than they. Bad and idolatrous as they were, they had a greater degree of morality among them than the Jews had. Having fallen from the true God, they became more abominable than others in proportion to the height, eminence, and glory from which they had fallen. This is the common case of…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6They - The inhabitants of Jerusalem.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-17Verses 5-17 The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry? Those who live and die impenitent, will perish for ever unpitied; there is a day coming when the Lord will not spare. Let not persons or churches, who change the Lord's statutes, expect to escape the doom of Jerusalem. Let us endeavour to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6The reason for God’s judgment on his people is very clear. Israel had broken its covenant (the binding promise relationship) with God. Because of this broken covenant, God brought judgment on them.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-65-6. Explanation of the symbols: Jerusalem--not the mere city, but the people of Israel generally, of which it was the center and representative. in ... midst--Jerusalem is regarded in God's point of view as center of the whole earth, designed to radiate the true light over the nations in all directions. Compare Margin ("navel"), Eze 38:12; Psa 48:2; Jr 3:17. No center in the ancient heathen world could have been selected more fitted than Canaan to be a…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings