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Then take some of those and throw them into the middle of the fire and burn them up in the fire. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

This is what the Lord God says. This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations, and all around her there are other countries. But she rebelled against my ordinances,[a] becoming more wicked than the nations, and she rebelled against my statutes more than the countries around her did, because the Israelites rejected my ordinances, and they did not walk in my statutes.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 5:6 Or what I judged to be right
  2. Ezekiel 5:6 The ordinances probably refer to moral law and the statutes to religious laws and practices.

Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire(A) and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel.

“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.(B) 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.(C)

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