Ezekiel 8:9-17
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.
Copyright information for
TSK