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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Ezekiel 8 This chapter contains a vision the prophet had of the idolatry of the Jews, which was the cause of their destruction. The time when, place, where, and persons with whom he was, when the hand of the Lord came upon him, are mentioned, Ezekiel 8:1; then follows a description of the divine Person that appeared to him, Ezekiel 8:2; and an account is given how he was in a...
John Gill
Then said he unto me, hast thou seen [this], O son of man?.... This shocking piece of idolatry, women weeping for Tammuz: turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations than these; or, "great abominations besides these" (f). (f) תועבות גדלות מאלה "abominationes magnas praeter istas", Calvin.
Matthew Henry
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 reprove the sins of the people, and with the more satisfaction foretel their ruin. Here God, in vision,...