Nose, to hide their faces respectfully, (Calmet) when they look at the sun rising. (Haydock) --- A thyrsus was used in honour of Bacchus, who is often confounded with the sun. Various improbable versions of this text are given. It may signify Hebrew, "they threw their instruments down before their faces," like the twenty-four elders, Apocalypse v. 8. (Calmet)
Verse Ezekiel 8:17. _THEY PUT THE BRANCH TO THEIR NOSE._] This is supposed to mean some branch or branches, which they carried in succession in honour of the idol, and with which they covered their f...
“Violence” represents sin against man, “abominations” sins against God. These went hand in hand in Jerusalem. AND HAVE RETURNED - After the reformation effected for a time by Josiah’s zeal, they have...
CHAPTER S 8-11 Visions in Relation to Jerusalem _ 1. The vision of abomination in the temple (Ezekiel 8:1) _ 2. The vision of the linen-clothed man with the inkhorn (Ezekiel 9:1) 3. The vision of...
THE. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "all the". LO. Figure of speech _Asterismce._ App-6. THE BRANCH. the Asherah (App-42), represented by. branch out to. certain shape. THEIR....
_Is it a light thing_ Probably: is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit … that they have filled: cf. Isaiah 49:6; ch. Ezekiel 9:9. _the branch to their nose_ This is supposed to be pa...
FOR THEY HAVE FILLED, &C.— The last clause of this verse seems evidently misunderstood; the _therefore_ in the following verse plainly pointing out that sense which the LXX, and other versions, give i...
C. The Announcement of Judgment 8:17-18 TRANSLATION (17) And He said unto me, Have you seen, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they are doing abominations which they have don...
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violenc...
§ 3. A VISION OF JERUSALEM'S SIN AND DOOM (EZEKIEL 8-11) Date, August-September, 591 b.c. A year and two months after his call to be a prophet, Ezekiel was visited in his house by the elders of the J...
THE BRANCH TO THEIR NOSE] usually explained as a ceremony connected with sun-worship. Persian sunworshippers held bunches of the twigs of certain trees before their mouths, that they might not contami...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 8 THE FALSE GOD IN THE *TEMPLE – EZEKIEL 8:1-6 V1 It was
FOR THEY HAVE FILLED THE LAND WITH VIOLENCE. — Corruption in religion here, as always, bore its proper fruit in moral deterioration. A people who go astray from their duty to God are always found to n...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַי֮ הֲ רָאִ֣יתָ בֶן ־אָדָם֒
YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:1; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 11:1 ONE of the most instructive phases of reli
We now come to the last prophecy dealing with the results of reprobation. It consists of a long and detailed description of the cause and process of judgment. Its first movement came to the prophet as...
Then he said to me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence...
Here is a picture, which holds forth the most finished representation of all. Here are about five and twenty men, with an uncovered front, got absolutely between the Porch and the Altar; that sacred s...
God complains as formerly of the wickedness of the people, especially of their perfidious and wicked revolt, because they so defiled the temple which ought to be sacred to God alone. He adds besides a...
Chapter 8 begins a new prophecy, which comprises several distinct revelations, and extends to the close of chapter 19 (from the eighth to the end of the eleventh being connected). Judah still existed...
THEN HE SAID UNTO ME, HAST THOU SEEN [THIS], O SON OF MAN?.... Took notice of and considered this piece of idolatry, worshipping the sun toward the east: IS IT A LIGHT THING TO THE HOUSE OF JUDAH THA...
_Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with viole...
_Then he said_ After the prophet had seen all, and had had time to consider all he saw, God appeals to him concerning the heinousness of their crimes. _Is it a light thing to the house of Israel_ Who...
VARIOUS ABOMINATIONS...
Then He said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? this open denial of the one true God. IS IT A LIGHT THING TO THE HOUSE OF JUDAH THAT THEY COMMIT THE ABOMINATIONS WHICH THEY COMMIT HERE? FOR T...
IS IT A LIGHT THING..THAT THEY COMMIT HERE?: Or, is there anything lighter then to commit?...
13-18 The yearly lamenting for Tammuz was attended with infamous practices; and the worshippers of the sun here described, are supposed to have been priests. The Lord appeals to the prophet concernin...
THEN; after the prophet had seen all, and had time to consider all he saw. HE SAID UNTO ME; God appeals to the prophet. Doth the house of Judah think these no sins, or but little sins, or that I accou...
Ezekiel 8:17 said H559 (H8799) seen H7200 (H8804) son H1121 man H120 thing H7043 (H8738) house...
‘Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations that they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence,...
CONTENTS: Third vision of the glory. The former profanation of the temple and God's anger because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Jaazaniah. CONCLUSION: Those are ripe indeed for ruin who have giv...
Ezekiel 8:1. _As I sat in my house the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me._ The time of this vision of Ezekiel is reckoned from the captivity of Jehoiachin or Jeconiah. It happened probably on th...
_Turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations than these._ OF SIN IN ITS AGGRAVATIONS I. What is understood by the heinousness of sin. 1. That it is offensive to God, displeasing to H...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 8:1 Ezekiel’s “temple vision,” the second of his four dramatic visions, has strong connections with the opening vision (chs. Ezekiel 1:1) and the concluding vision (chs....
_Third and fourth abomination_ (Ezekiel 8:13) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 8:13. The seer is led from the secret chamber back to the point at which he had first approached to the precincts of the Temple...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 8:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, etc. We begin with a fresh date. One year and one month had passed since the vision of Chebar, and had been occupied partly by the acted, partly by the spo...
CHAPTER 8. THE IMAGE OF JEALOUSY AND OTHER ABOMINATIONS AT JERUSALEM. Ezekiel 8:1. _And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth (month), in the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house,...
Now we move into a new section of the book that is really a conclusion of his first prophesy. It came to pass now in the sixth year, and in the sixth month, and in the fifth day of the month, as I sa...
2 Kings 21:16; 2 Kings 24:4; Amos 3:10; Amos 6:3; Ezekiel 11:6;...
Violence — All injustice is here meant towards all sorts of men, whom they first despise and next destroy. Returned — From injustice against man they return to impiety against God. The branch — As the...