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Ezekiel 8:7

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Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

KJV

And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

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This verse in Ezekiel 8

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

on Ezekiel 8:7-9

(Verse 7 and following) And He brought me to the entrance of the courtyard, and I saw, and behold, there was a hole in the wall. And He said to me, Son of man, dig through the wall. So I dug through the wall, and there was a doorway. And He said to me, Go in and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here. This is what I have translated: And I saw, and behold, there was a hole in the wall. This is not found in the Septuagint.

This site's exposition

brought me to the door of the court

on Ezekiel 8:7-9

The tour moves from the open provocation at the gate to a hidden one: a hole in the wall, a command to dig, and behind the digging a door leading to a secret chamber. Gill reads the physical concealment as the text's own commentary on the difference between the first abomination and what follows, sin practiced in the open at the altar gate compared with sin that still knows enough to hide itself behind a wall. The command go in, and behold the wicked abominations makes the prophet an eyewitness rather than a hearer of report, the pattern the whole chapter uses to certify what it charges.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And he brought me to the door of the court,.... Of the inner court, the court of the priests and Levites. Dr. Lightfoot (x) says this was the east gate, and most common way of entrance; and in that gate the sanhedrim used to sit in these times; and there the prophet sees their council chamber painted about with imagery: and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall; of one of the chambers of the priests and Levites, where they lay. (x) Prospect of the Temple, c. 28. p. 2018.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The door of the court - The seer is brought to another spot. In Ezekiel’s time there were various buildings on the space around the inner court which formed a court or courts, not improbably enclosed by a wall. The idolatries here were viewed as taking place in secret, and it is more in accordance with the temple arrangements to suppose that such chambers as would give room for those rites should belong to the outer than to the inner court.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבֵ֥אand he brought

    vaiyave'H935 →2568 times

  • אֹתִ֖י<obj.> me

    ʾotiH853 →10935 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • פֶּ֣תַח[the] entrance of

    petachH6607 →164 times

  • הֶֽחָצֵ֑רthe court

    hechatzerH2691 →191 times

  • וָאֶרְאֶ֕הand I saw

    vaerehH7200 →1300 times

  • וְהִנֵּ֥הand there!

    vehinehH2009 →843 times

  • חֹר־a hole

    chor-H2356 →

  • אֶחָ֖דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • בַּקִּֽיר׃[was] in the wall

    bakirH7023 →75 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 7:12

    The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:36

      Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 7:6

      Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.

    • John 10:23

      and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.

    • Acts 5:12

      The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.

  • Through

    2 Kings 21:5

    In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 7:12

      The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

    • 2 Kings 23:4

      Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the…

    • 2 Kings 23:12

      He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards…

    • Ezekiel 40:32

      And he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 8 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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