エゼキエル書 8:5-15 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:7

To the door of the court. What follows suggests that the prophet was led to the gate that opened from the inner to the outer court. This gas surrounded by chambers or cells ( Jeremiah 35:4 ). The term for "wall" ( kir ) is that specially used for the wall which encloses a whole group of buildings ( Numbers 35:4 ). Behold a hole in the wall. The fact was clearly significant. The worship here was more clandestine than that of the "image of jealousy." We are not warranted, perhaps, in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:7-13

The chambers of imagery; or, secret sins. "And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall," etc. In the case of "the image of jealousy" the idolatry of the Israelites was open; in this case it is secret. In that the abominations were committed by the house of Israel; in this by the elders of the house of israel. The paragraph suggests several observations on secret sins. I. THE MOST HEINOUS SINS ARE GENERALLY COMMITTED IN ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:10

Every form of creeping things. The words obviously paint the theriomorphic worship of Egypt, the scarabseus probably being prominent. The alliance between Jehoiakim and Pharaoh ( 2 Kings 24:1-20 :33-35), and which Zedekiah was endeavouring to renew, would naturally bring about a revival of that cultus. Small chambers in rock or tomb filled with such pictured symbols were specially characteristic of it. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:10

Base idolatry. Placed, as the children of Israel were, in a very central position among the nations, they were exposed to a great variety of temptations. Circumstances must sometimes have favoured the influence of one nation, sometimes of another. Commercial intercourse, political leagues, matrimonial alliances, all had a share in determining which nation should predominate in influencing the Jewish people. And it is certain that by such influences the people were led into idolatries of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:11

Seventy men , etc. The number was probably chosen with reference to the "elders" who had seen the Divine glory in Exodus 24:9 , Exodus 24:10 . The Sanhedrin, or council of seventy, did not exist till after the Captivity. The number can scarcely have been accidental, and may imply that the elders were formally representative. Another Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, appears in Jeremiah 35:3 ; yet another, the son of Azur, in Ezekiel 11:1 . If the Shaphan mentioned is the scribe, the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

Every man, etc. And this, after all, was but a sample of the prevalence of the Egyptian influence. Other elders had, in the dark , a like adytum, a like chamber of imagery, like the Latin lararium, filled. with a like cloud of incense. And though the name of the leader of the band might have warned them that the Lord was listening, they boasted, in their blindness, that Jehovah did not see them; he had forsaken the temple, and had fiche elsewhere. They thought of Jehovah as of a local... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

Chambers of imagery. Old men who should have been the guides of the younger generation were found by the prophet to have their secret practices of idolatry in private chambers, where they kept idols unknown to the world at large. Too careful for their reputation to share in the open idolatry of the mass of the people, these venerable hypocrites aggravated their guilt by cowardly deception. Safely ensconced in the seclusion of their chambers of imagery, they revelled in the orgies of a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

Atheism. In the chambers of the temple courts the prophet in his vision beheld seventy elders, representing the people of Judah and Israel, engaged in idolatrous worship. The walls of the chambers were decorated with figures of the animals to which homage was rendered. Those who by reason of character and station should have been the leaders of the people in the offices of pure religion were engaged in waving the censers of the idolatrous worship, and the thick cloud of unholy incense... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:14

Behold, there sat women wailing for Tammuz. The point of view is probably the same as that of Ezekiel 8:3 , but the women were apparently in the outer porch of it, as he has to be brought to the gate in order to see them. We are led to note two things: Under "Thammuz next came behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:14

Weeping for Tammuz. If the usual interpretation of this passage is correct, then it is clear that there had been introduced from Northern Syria into Jerusalem a superstitious practice and cultus, which was altogether alien from the beliefs and the worship proper to the nation whom the Supreme had favoured with a clear and glorious revelation of his blessed character and his holy will. It is an illustration of the weakness and proneness to err characteristic of our humanity, that a nation... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:7-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:14

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