Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 8:12
In the dark - Hidden in the secret places which the seer dug through the wall to discover.
Chambers of his imagery - i. e., chambers painted with images.
In the dark - Hidden in the secret places which the seer dug through the wall to discover.
Chambers of his imagery - i. e., chambers painted with images.
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...
IN THE DARK. This was. special feature of this animal idolatry. THE LORD SEETH US NOT: or, there is no Jehovah seeing us. Compare Ezekiel 9:9. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
_the chambers of his imagery_ Or, HIS CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY. The language implies that there were many chambers of imagery, and again suggests that the scene was symbolical. For "ancients" ELDERS. On "i...
IN THE DARK— Hence Milton says of Ezekiel with great propriety, By the vision led, His eye survey'd the dark idolatries of alienated Judah. PARADISE LOST, i. 455....
_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...
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath...
8:12 land. (a-42) Or 'earth.'...
§ 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...
IN THE DARK] Secrecy was a marked feature of this animal-worship. THE LORD SEETH US NOT, etc.] This was the excuse and perhaps the belief of these idolaters, though God's glorious presence was even th...
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
DO IN THE DARK, _i.e.,_ in secret. Hence the difficulty of access to the place of their worship. The ordinary idolatries of Israel, as of most heathen, consisted in the worship of the true, or of a su...
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 said he to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel (n) do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath f...
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...
_SECRET SINS_ ‘Then said He unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not;...
Again God questions his servant: we have explained the reason — that he may pass sentence as a judge on his own people, whence it may be more clearly evident that those who had provoked God were unwor...
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, HAST THOU SEEN,.... Here should be a stop, as the accent "segolta" shows; hast thou taken notice of, hast thou considered, what thou hast seen, the amazing shocking a...
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath f...
_Hast thou seen what the ancients do in the dark_ Do secretly; _every man in the chambers of his imagery_ Chambers so very private, that the prophet is described as obliged to dig a hole through the w...
Then said He unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, in the secrecy of these hidden cells, EVERY MAN IN THE CHAMBERS OF HIS IMAGERY? where idolatro...
VARIOUS ABOMINATIONS...
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...
HAST THOU SEEN? observed and thoroughly considered. THE ANCIENTS: see EZEKIEL 8:11. DO IN THE DARK; whether ashamed to act openly what was most absurd, or whether out of blindness doting in secret on...
Ezekiel 8:12 said H559 (H8799) Son H1121 man H120 seen H7200 (H8804) elders H2205 house H1004 Israel...
‘Then he said to me, “Son of man, you have seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his own chambers of imagery, for they say, “Yahweh does not see us. Yahweh has forsa...
Ezekiel 8:12 I. Think of the dark and painted chamber which we all of us carry in our hearts. Every man is a mystery to himself as to his fellows. For every man is no fixed somewhat, but a growing pe...
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...
_Every man in the chambers of his imagery._ CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY Though we are not told that this was a human vision, or in any sense what we understand as an incarnation, yet there are terms in the d...
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...
Ephesians 5:12; Ezekiel 14:1; Ezekiel 20:1; Ezekiel 8:11; Ezekiel 8:15
Seeth not — They deny God's care of them and their affairs, and therefore they must chuse some other god....