Ezekiel 8
Introduction
Verses 1–6
Ezekiel was now in Babylon; but the messages of wrath he had delivered in the foregoing chapters related to Jerusalem, for in the peace or trouble thereof the captives looked upon themselves to have peace or trouble, and therefore here he has a vision of what was done at Jerusalem, and this vision…
Verses 7–12
We have here a further discovery of the abominations that were committed at Jerusalem, and within the confines of the temple, too. Now observe, I. How this discovery is made.
Verses 13–18
Here we have, I. More and greater abominations discovered to the prophet. He thought that what he had seen was bad enough and yet : Turn thyself again, and thou shalt see yet greater abominations, and greater still, Ezek. 8:15, as before, Ezek. 8:6.
God, having given the prophet a clear foresight of the people’s miseries that were hastening on, here gives him a clear insight into the people’s wickedness, by which God was provoked to bring these miseries upon them, that he might justify God in all his judgments, might the more particularly…