Ezekiel 8:12 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 8:7-12

We have here a further discovery of the abominations that were committed at Jerusalem, and within the confines of the temple, too. Now observe, I. How this discovery is made. God, in vision, brought Ezekiel to the door of the court, the outer court, along the sides of which the priests? lodgings were. God could have introduced him at first into the chambers of imagery, but he brings him to them by degrees, partly to employ his own industry in searching out these mysteries of iniquity, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

Then said he unto me, son of man, hast thou seen ,.... Here should be a stop, as the accent "segolta" shows; hast thou taken notice of, hast thou considered, what thou hast seen, the amazing shocking abominations committed by these men? it follows, and the question is to be repeated, "hast thou seen" what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark ? their deeds being evil, such as will not bear the light, of which they had reason to be ashamed before men; and which they imagined... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 8:12

Verse 12 Again God questions his servant: we have explained the reason — that he may pass sentence as a judge on his own people, whence it may be more clearly evident that those who had provoked God were unworthy of any pardon. Thou seest, says he, what the elders do? Through a feeling of honor he does not here name these elders of the house of Israel, but rather reproves their ingratitude, because they so drive others with them into alliance with their impiety. For elders ought to show the way... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:1-16

Gradual disclosure of human sin. The prophet notes the exact date of the vision, so that, if any doubt arose, the circumstance could be verified, so long as any one of these elders survived. These details of day and month may seem to many readers needless and tedious; yet, in an earlier day, they probably served an important purpose, and may be again useful in a future age. Even now they demonstrate with what diligent care the prophet preserved the records of Divine manifestations. The... 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 8:12

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 8:12

In the dark - Hidden in the secret places which the seer dug through the wall to discover.Chambers of his imagery - i. e., chambers painted with images. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 8:12

Ezekiel 8:12 . Hast thou seen what the ancients do in the dark Do secretly; every man in the chambers of his imagery Chambers so very private, that the prophet is described as obliged to dig a hole through the wall before he could discover their idolatrous practices. For they say, The Lord seeth us not They either deny the being and providence of God, (Ezekiel 9:9,) or they say in their hearts, God hath cast us off, and withdrawn his wonted protection from us. They seem to have been of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 8:7-12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:1-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:7-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 8:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 8:12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 8:12

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