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Ezekiel 8:1-4
The Time and Place of the Vision
The Time and Place of the Vision
CHAPTER VIII _Here begins a section of prophecy extending to the_ twelfth _chapter. In this chapter the prophet is carried in vision to_ _Jerusalem_, 1-4; _and there shown the idolatries committed...
THE ELDERS OF JUDAH - The prophet’s fellow-exiles are no longer unwilling to hear him Ezekiel 2:1. They sat as mourners. The message here is not as in Ezekiel 6:2, but distinctly to Judah, that portio...
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...
EZEKIEL 8-13. OTHER VISIONS OF SIN AND JUDGMENT. Ezekiel 8. The Idolatry of Jerusalem Illustrated. Ezekiel 8:1. The Jealousy Image. The visions which fill chs. 8- 11 occurred about a year after thos...
THE SIXTH YEAR, &c. See table on p. 1105. FIFTH. Some codices read "first". THE ELDERS OF JUDAH: i.e. of' the Jewish colony at Tel. Abib (Ezekiel 3:15). THE HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia....
_the sixth_month] The first vision of the prophet was in the fifth year of Jehoiachin's captivity and in the fourth month (Ezekiel 1:1); the present one a year and two months later. LXX. reads _fifth_...
The trance in presence of the elders. The prophet, abiding in his house (ch. Ezekiel 3:25), was visited by the elders of the captivity among whom he dwelt. They probably came to consult him regarding...
IN THE SIXTH YEAR, IN THE SIXTH MONTH— That is, one month after the first vision, which Ezekiel had in the fifth year of Jehoiachin's captivity. See ch. Ezekiel 1:2. This chapter, and the three follow...
CHAPTER SIX VISIONS OF JERUSALEM'S JUDGMENT 8:1-11:25 In Chapter s 8-11 Ezekiel recounts a new series of visions. The purpose of these visions is to show that the divine judgments against Judah were...
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon...
THE SIXTH YEAR.. the sixth _month_] August-September, 591 b.c. Mine house] to which Ezekiel's prophetic activity was confined (Ezekiel 3:24). THE ELDERS OF JUDAH] the leading men of the exiled communi...
§ 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...
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
THE ELDERS OF JUDAH SAT BEFORE ME. — It is plain from this that Ezekiel, as a priest, and now already known as a prophet, was held in consideration among the captives. It also appears that he lived in...
וַ יְהִ֣י ׀ בַּ † שָּׁנָ֣ה הַ שִּׁשִּׁ֗ית...
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...
And it came to pass in the (a) sixth year, in the (b) sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell...
Sixth of the prophet's captivity, (Calmet) in August, the year of the world 3411. (Usher) --- He had rested on his left or right side, whenever he slept during 430 days, and on the following had this...
CONTENTS Under the similitude of the image of jealousy, the Prophet in this chapter sets forth the awful state of the people. And in the figure of the idol Tammuz, the deplorable condition to which a...
There is no doubt that a prophetic vision is here narrated; for the Prophet was not carried to Jerusalem, nor had he changed his place, nor were the elders of Judah before him, but he seemed to himsel...
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...
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SIXTH YEAR, IN THE SIXTH [MONTH], IN THE FIFTH [DAY] OF THE MONTH,.... This was the sixth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin; the sixth month was the month Elul, which answ...
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there...
_And it came to pass in the sixth year_ Namely, of Jehoiachin's captivity. _In the sixth month_ The LXX. read, _in the fifth month. As I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah_ Men of note for their...
1-6 The glorious personage Ezekiel beheld in vision, seemed to take hold upon him, and he was conveyed in spirit to Jerusalem. There, in the inner court of the temple, was prepared a place for some ba...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 8 Ezekiel is brought in a vision of God to Jerusalem, EZEKIEL 8:1, and showed the image of jealousy set up in the temple, EZEKIEL 8:5,6, the worship of the ancients in their chambers o...
Ezekiel 8:1 sixth H8345 year H8141 sixth H8345 fifth H2568 month H2320 sat H3427 (H8802) house H1004 elders...
‘And so it was in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there upon me. T...
SIXTH MONTH That is, September....
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...
_And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel._ GOD’S PRESENCE A REPROOF TO HIS IDOLATROUS PEOPLE Two chief thoughts appear expressed by the symbolism; first, by making the “glory” of Jehovah appear i...
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....
III.—FURTHER PROPHETIC ACTION IMPOSED ON EZEKIEL. CHAPS. 8–19 Ezekiel has recorded the circumstances in which he received his call to be a prophet, and then the signs and words by which he was to sign...
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...
Acts 20:33; Ezekiel 1:2; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 14:1; Ezekiel 14:4;...
Sixth year — Of Jeconiah's captivity. Sixth month — Elul or our August. The elders — The chief of those that were now in captivity. They were come either to spend the sabbath in religious exercises, o...