Ezekiel 8
1 Ezekiel, in a vision of God at Jerusalem,5 is shewn the image of jealousy;7 the chambers of imagery;13 the mourners for Tammuz;16 the worshippers toward the sun.17 God's wrath for their idolatry. in the sixth year.1:2; 20:1; 24:1; 26:1; 29:1,17; 31:1; 32:17; 40:1and the.14:1,4; 20:1; 33:31; Mal 2:7; Ac 20:33that the.1:3; 3:12,14,22; 37:1 I beheld.1:4,26,27; Da 7:9,10; Re 1:14,15amber.Amber is a hard, inflammable, bituminous substance, of a beautiful yellow colour, very transparent, and susceptible of an exquisite polish. When rubbed it is highly endowed with electricity; a name which the moderns have formed from its Greek name [elektron.] But, as amber becomes dim as soon as it feels the fire, and is speedily consumed, it is probable that the original {chashmal,} which Bochart derives from the Chaldee {nechash,} copper, and {melala,} gold, was a mixed metal, similar to that which the Greeks called [elektron,] electrum, as the LXX. and Vulgate render, from its resemblance to amber in colour. he put.2:9; Da 5:5; 10:10,18the spirit.3:14; 11:1,24; 40:2; 1Ki 18:12; 2Ki 2:16; Ac 8:39; 2Co 12:2-4Re 1:10-20; 4:2-11to the door.5; 2Ki 16:14the image.5:11; 7:20; 2Ki 21:7; Jer 7:30; 32:34provoketh.Ex 20:5; 34:14; De 4:24; 5:9; 6:15; 32:16,21; Jos 24:19; Ps 78:581Co 10:21,22 1:26-28; 3:22,23; 9:3; 10:1-4; 11:22,23; 43:2-4; Ex 25:22; 40:34,352Co 3:18; 4:4-6; Heb 1:3 lift.Jer 3:2; Zec 5:5-11at the.3; Ps 48:2 seest.12,17; Jer 3:6; 7:17even.9,17; 5:11; 7:20-22; 23:38,39; 2Ki 23:4-6; Pr 5:14; Jer 7:30; 23:11Jer 32:34that I.10:19; 11:22; De 31:16-18; 2Ch 36:14-17; Ps 78:60; Jer 26:6La 2:6,7greater.11,14,16 1Ki 7:12; 2Ki 21:5 Job 34:22; Isa 29:15; Jer 2:34; *marg:Jer 23:24; Am 9:2,3 that they.20:8 and behold.These images portrayed on the wall were no doubt the objects of Egyptian idolatry, the ox, ape, crocodile, ibis, beetle, etc., as we find those idols were painted on the walls of the tombs of kings and nobles. every.Ex 20:4; Le 11:10-12,29-31,42-44; De 4:18; 14:3,7,8; Isa 57:6-10Jer 2:26,27; 3:9; 16:18; Ro 1:23 seventy.Ex 24:1,9; Nu 11:16,25; Jer 5:5; 19:1; Da 9:8Shaphan.2Ki 22:3,8,12,14; 25:22; 2Ch 34:20; Jer 26:24; 29:3; 36:10every.Nu 16:17,35; 2Ch 26:16,19; Jer 7:9 hast.6,15,17ancients.11; 14:1; 20:1; Eph 5:12in the.7,8; Job 24:13-17; Joh 3:19,20The Lord seeth.9:9; Job 22:12,13; Ps 73:11; 94:7-10; Isa 29:15 greater.6,15; Jer 9:3; 2Ti 3:13 toward.44:4; 46:9 Hast.6,12; 2Ti 3:13greater.9,13 the inner.10:3; 40:28; 43:5; 45:19at the door.2Ki 16:14; 2Ch 7:7; Joe 2:17about.11:1with their.23:35; 1Ki 8:29; 2Ch 29:6; Jer 2:27; 32:33their faces.De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ki 23:5,11; Job 31:26-28; Jer 44:17; Ac 7:42,43and they.It seems that the Jews had incorporated every species of idolatry into their worship, Egyptian, Phoenician, and Persian; for this evidently was the Magian worship of the sun. Is it a light, etc. or, Is there any thing lighter than tocommit, etc. for. 7:23; 9:9; 11:6; Ge 6:13; 2Ki 21:16; 24:4; Jer 6:7; 19:4; 20:8Am 3:10; 6:3; Mic 2:2; 6:12; Zep 1:9they put.So the Vulgate has, {applicant ramum ad nares suas,} "they apply the branch to their nose;" which Jerome explains by "a branch of the palm tree with which they adored the idols;" and it seems plainly to allude to the Magian fire-worshippers, who, Strabo tells us, held a little bunch of twigs in their hand, when praying before the fire. will I also.5:11-13; 7:4-9; 9:5,10; 16:42; 24:13; Na 1:2and though.Jud 10:13,14; Pr 1:28; Isa 1:15; 59:2; Jer 11:11; 14:12; Mic 3:4Zec 7:13; Lu 13:25
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