Ezekiel 8:7 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 8:7

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

BSB

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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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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

(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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֵ֥א	vai.ya.Ve'	and he brought	H935 →
אֹתִ֖י	'o.Ti	<obj.> me	H853 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
פֶּ֣תַח	Pe.tach	[the] entrance of	H6607 →
הֶֽחָצֵ֑ר	he.cha.Tzer	the court	H2691 →
וָאֶרְאֶ֕ה	va.'er.'Eh	and I saw	H7200 →
וְהִנֵּ֥ה	ve.hi.Neh	and there!	H2009 →
חֹר־	chor-	a hole	H2356 →
אֶחָ֖ד	'e.Chad	one	H259 →
בַּקִּֽיר׃	ba.Kir	[was] in the wall	H7023 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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.
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 independent 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.
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.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ezekiel