Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 8:5
Northward — Ahaz had removed it from the middle of the court and set it near this north gate, to which it gave name. Entry — In the very passage to the temple, to affront the worship of God.
Northward — Ahaz had removed it from the middle of the court and set it near this north gate, to which it gave name. Entry — In the very passage to the temple, to affront the worship of God.
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...
_gate of the altar_ Is probably the northern inner gate. The northern entrance was the most frequented, partly because the royal palace and buildings lay to the south and east, and the west was closed...
B. The Abominations of Jerusalem 8:5-16 TRANSLATION (5) And he said unto me, Son of man, set, I pray you, your eyes to the way of the north, and behold, north of the altar gate was this image of jeal...
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealo...
§ 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...
NORTHWARD AT] RV 'northward of.' GATE OF THE ALTAR] apparently still the northern inner gate. It is uncertain why it was so called. THIS IMAGE OF JEALOUSY] Ezekiel saw the image, which had not been t...
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 WAY TOWARD THE NORTH. — This shows that Ezekiel in his vision was within the court of the priests, as otherwise he could not have looked _toward_ the north to see the idol in the north gate. He ha...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י בֶּן ־אָדָ֕ם שָׂא ־נָ֥א
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 said he to me, Son of man, lift up thy eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the (h) altar this image of jealousy...
It should seem by what is said in those verses, that the Lord meant his servant the Prophet should be enabled by such facts brought before his eyes, to tell the elders that sat before him, in what jus...
Here one profanation of the temple, is shown to the Prophet, namely, the idol erected at the entrance of the area near the altar. It may happen that the worship of God is but slightly vitiated, so tha...
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 SAID HE UNTO ME, SON OF MAN,.... That is, the glorious Person described above in this vision, the glorious God of Israel, seen by the prophet in the temple, he spoke unto him, calling him son of...
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealou...
_And he put forth the form of a hand_ He appeared so to do. This, and all that follows, to the end of Ezekiel 8:16, was done in vision only, as appears from the expression here used: _and brought me i...
Then said He unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north, to the left of the direction in which the Temple faced. SO I LIFTED UP MINE EYES THE WAY TOWARD THE NORTH AND BEHOLD...
VARIOUS ABOMINATIONS...
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...
THEN; when he had in vision brought me hither. LIFT UP THINE EYES; observe diligently and exactly every thing which thou mayst see northward first. THE GATE OF THE ALTAR; so called, because Ahaz had r...
Ezekiel 8:5 said H559 (H8799) Son H1121 man H120 lift H5375 (H8798) eyes H5869 toward H1870 north...
‘Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way towards the north.” So I lifted up my eyes the way towards the north, and behold, northward of the gate of the altar, this image of jeal...
SON OF MAN The combined purport of the four visions of profanation in chapter 8, is idolatry set up in the entire temple, even in the holy of holies (Ezekiel 8:10); (Ezekiel 8:11) women given over to...
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...
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....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 8:5 The first of the four scenes finds Ezekiel with his back to the altar, facing an IMAGE OF JEALOUSY, which remains unidentified. The vagueness is deliberate: focus remains o...
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...
Ezekiel 8:3; Jeremiah 3:2; Psalms 48:2; Zechariah 5:5...