|<< Ezekiel 8 >>| Clarke's Commentary on the Bible Here begins a
section of prophecy extending to the twelfth chapter. In this
chapter the prophet is carried in vision to Jerusalem, Ezekiel
8:1-4; and there shown the idolatries committed by the rulers of
the Jews, even within the temple. In the beginning of this
vision, by the noblest stretch of an inspired imagination,
idolatry itself is personified, and made an idol; and the image
sublimely called, from the provocation it gave God, the Image of
Jealousy, Ezekiel 8:5. The prophet then proceeds to describe the
three principal superstitions of this unhappy people: the
Egyptian, Ezekiel 8:6-12, the Phoenician, Ezekiel 8:13, Ezekiel
8:14, and the Persian, Ezekiel 8:15, Ezekiel 8:16; giving the
striking features of each, and concluding with a declaration of
the heinousness of their sins in the sight of God, and the
consequent greatness of their punishment, Ezekiel 8:17, Ezekiel
8:18. 1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth
month, in the fifth day of