Ezekielchapter 8
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A.Lifted by a lock of hair between earth and heavenvv. 1-4
1 In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me. 2 Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber. 3 He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated. 4 And there I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain.
B.The image of jealousy at the north gatevv. 5-6
5 “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy. 6 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”
C.A hole in the wall and seventy elders in the darkvv. 7-13
7 Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall. 8 “Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway. 9 Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.” 10 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel. 11 Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising. 12 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’” 13 Again, He told me, “You will see them committing even greater abominations.”
D.Women weeping for Tammuzvv. 14-15
14 Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz. 15 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”
E.Twenty-five men with their backs to the templevv. 16-18
16 So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun. 17 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose! 18 Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
Chapter summary
Fourteen months later, with the elders of Judah sitting before him, the Spirit lifts Ezekiel by a lock of his head and carries him in visions to Jerusalem for a tour of hidden abominations.
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Chapter summary
Fourteen months later, with the elders of Judah sitting before him, the Spirit lifts Ezekiel by a lock of his head and carries him in visions to Jerusalem for a tour of hidden abominations.
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Fourteen months later, with the elders of Judah sitting before him, the Spirit lifts Ezekiel by a lock of his head and carries him in visions to Jerusalem for a tour of hidden abominations. At the north gate stands the image of jealousy. Told to dig through a wall, he finds a chamber where seventy elders swing censers among every form of creeping thing portrayed round about, each man in his chambers of imagery, saying 'Jehovah seeth us not.' At the temple gate women weep for Tammuz. And between the porch and the altar, twenty-five men with their backs to the temple bow eastward to the sun.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.
Context
Prophecy · Ezekiel — Ezekiel overview
- A. 1–4 Lifted by a lock of hair between earth and heaven
- B. 5–6 The image of jealousy at the north gate
- C. 7–13 A hole in the wall and seventy elders in the dark
- D. 14–15 Women weeping for Tammuz
- E. 16–18 Twenty-five men with their backs to the temple
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Ezekiel 84 verses
- Ezekiel 8:3He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
- Ezekiel 8:6“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”
- Ezekiel 8:9Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.”
- Ezekiel 8:15“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”
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Ezekiel 202 verses
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- Ezekiel 20:8But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
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Numbers 162 verses
- Numbers 16:17Each man is to take his censer, place incense in it, and present it before the LORD—250 censers. You and Aaron are to present your censers as well.”
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Isaiah 291 verse
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Ezekiel 91 verse
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