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Ezekiel 7:20

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 7:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

As for the beauty of his ornament. The latter word is commonly used of the necklaces, armlets, etc; of women (; ; ; ). So again in , ; .

The singular is used of the people collectively, or of each man individually, like German man or French on. He set it in majesty; better, he—or to give the sense they—turned it to pride. Wealth and art had ministered, as in , first to mere pride and pomp; then they made out of their ornaments the idols which they worshipped, and which were now, the same emphatic word being repeated, as a pollution to them.

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