Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 5:7

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Because ye multiplied more then the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you.

There is some difficulty in assigning what 'tis they multiplied in, either numbers of People, benefits received from God, Luxury, Pride, Tumultuousness, with increase of your Riches. Or, in Idols, superstitions, and appendant wickednesses, this last seems most agreeable with the Text, the rest may not be excluded.

See ver. 6.

See ver. 6.

While you have exceeded the Nations in Superstition and Idolatry, you have fallen short of them in the moralities of their Life, and done less good, then they taught by a far more imperfect Law, then you, Rom. 2.21, 22, 24.