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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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 8:13-18

Here we have, I. More and greater abominations discovered to the prophet. He thought that what he had seen was bad enough and yet (Ezek. 8:13): Turn thyself again, and thou shalt see yet greater abominations, and greater still, Ezek. 8:15; as before, Ezek. 8:6. There are those who live in retirement who do no think what wickedness there is in this world; and the more we converse with it, and the further we go abroad into it, the more corrupt we see it. When we have seen that which is bad we... read more

John Gill

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

Then said he unto me, son of man, dig now in the wall ,.... And so make the hole larger; that he might have a fuller view of what was to be seen within the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door ; an opening, by which he could go into the cell or chamber, and take a full view of what was to be seen there. All this was visionary, for in reality the prophet did not dig, nor could he, not having anything to dig with; but so things appeared to his mind in the vision: first a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:9

And he said unto me, go in ,.... Into the room or chamber the door opened into: and behold the wicked abominations they do here ; the idolatries there committed, wicked in themselves, and abominable to God. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:10

So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things ,.... As beetles and others, worshipped for gods: and abominable beasts ; unclean ones; not only oxen, but dogs and cats, and other impure creatures; for such were the gods of the Egyptians, from whom the Jews took their deities: and all the idols of the house of Israel ; which were many, even as numerous as their cities: portrayed upon the wall round about ; the pictures of them were drawn and placed around the wall... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:11

And there stood before them ,.... Before the pictures, as the Vulgate Latin version expresses it, praying, sacrificing, and offering incense unto them: seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel ; the whole sanhedrim, or great court of judicature among the Jews, as Kimchi; or at least there is an allusion to that number, which were appointed in Moses' time to be officers over the people, and govern and direct them, Numbers 11:16 ; which shows how sadly depraved and corrupted... 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 Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:13

He said also unto me, turn thee yet again ,.... Towards the north, as before; See Gill on Ezekiel 8:6 ; and thou shall see greater abominations that they do ; or: "the great abominations"; for so the words may be strictly rendered; nor does it appear that what follows, though great abominations, were greater than the creeping things, four footed beasts, and other idols, or dunghill gods, portrayed upon the walls, which the elders of Israel burnt incense to. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:14

Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house, which was towards the north ,.... By "the Lord's house" no doubt is meant the temple, which the Targum here calls the house of the sanctuary of the Lord; that gate of the temple (for the temple had several gates) which was to the north was the gate called Teri or Tedi, and was very little used F25 Misn. Middot, c. 5. sect. 3. . In this part of the temple were the sacrifices offered; and therefore it was the greater... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:15

Then said he unto me, hast thou seen this , O son of man ?.... This shocking piece of idolatry, women weeping for Tammuz: turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these ; or, "great abominations besides these" F6 תועבות גדלות מאלה "abominationes magnas praeter istas", Calvin. . read more

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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 8:13-18

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:11

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 8:15

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