Verse Ezekiel 8:11. _JAAZANIAH THE SON OF SHAPHAN_] Shaphan was a scribe, or what some call comptroller of the temple, in the days of Josiah; and _Jaazaniah_ his son probably succeeded him in this off...
SEVENTY MEN - Compare Exodus 24:9. The vision may have pointed to the contrast between the times. The number “seven” is symbolic of the covenant between Yahweh and His people, and so the “seventy” men...
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 MYSTERY CULT. Next, through a hole in the Temple wall, Ezekiel saw seventy elders headed by Jaazaniah (son, perhaps, of that very Shaphan who had been associated with the reform of the worship thi...
SEVENTY. The number of the elders. See Numbers 11:18; 2 Chronicles 19:8; Jeremiah 26:17, MEN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. ANCIENTS. elders. Contrast...
_seventy men of the ancients_ i.e. of the _elders_. The seventy were not any court such as the later Sanhedrim, but merely seventy men representing the elders of Israel (Exodus 24:1; Numbers 11:16; Nu...
_EZEKIEL 8:7_.— _He brought me to the door_] The first inference which may be drawn from these words is, that the superstition here described was Egyptian. This appears from its objects being the gods...
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...
And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud o...
§ 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...
JAAZANIAH THE SON OF SHAPHAN] Shaphan was a famous scribe who took part in Josiah's reformation (2 Kings 22:8). Two of his sons, Ahikam (Jeremiah 26:24) and Gemariah (Jeremiah 36:10;...
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
SEVENTY MEN OF THE ANCIENTS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. — There may have been no enclosed chamber about the courts of the temple capable of actually containing so large a number; but again we are to remem...
וְ שִׁבְעִ֣ים אִ֣ישׁ מִ זִּקְנֵ֣י בֵֽית ־יִ֠ש
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 there stood before them seventy (l) men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and (m) a thick cl...
_Jezonias. He probably was over the temple, as his father had been, 4 Kings xxii. 3. (Calmet)_...
Oh! what an awful account is here. The Prophet hath discovered now through the Lord's teaching him, by looking in through this hole in the wall, that it is not the common people, not the ignorant, not...
He says also, _that seventy elders of the house of Israel made incense for their idols _I do not think that the seventy who were chosen for ruling the people are referred to here, though I suppose the...
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 THERE STOOD BEFORE THEM,.... Before the pictures, as the Vulgate Latin version expresses it, praying, sacrificing, and offering incense unto them: SEVENTY MEN OF THE ANCIENTS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRA...
_And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud o...
_And he brought me to the door of the court_ This, Dr. Lightfoot understands of the east gate of the inner court, called the _gate of Nicanor_, over which was the council chamber, where the sanhedrim...
VARIOUS ABOMINATIONS...
And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, a number which is found also elsewhere for representative bodies among time people of the covenant, AND IN THE MIDST OF...
7-12 A secret place was, as it were, opened, where the prophet saw creatures painted on the walls, and a number of the elders of Israel worshipped before them. No superiority in worldly matters will...
THERE STOOD, offering incense before the idols. SEVENTY MEN; either the sanhedrim, or council of seventy, who should have preserved religion pure and untainted, to which their office bound them; or el...
Ezekiel 8:11 stood H5975 (H8802) before H6440 seventy H7657 men H376 elders H2205 house H1004 Israel H3478 midst...
‘So I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy...
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 in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah._ EVIL SECRETS REVEALED 1. Persons may sometimes be found where we would little expect them to be. It may happen that the irreligious shall appear among the...
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...
2 Chronicles 26:16; 2 Chronicles 26:19; 2 Chronicles 34:20; 2 Kings 22:12;...
Seventy — Heads of the tribes or families, who should have been examples of true religion, not ringleaders in idolatry. Shaphan — Mentioned 2 Kings 22:9. Shaphan was forward in reforming under Josiah...