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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
Therefore will I also deal in fury,.... Being provoked by such abominable idolatries, and such horrid insolence, and most contemptuous treatment: mine eye shall not spare: neither will I have pity: see Ezekiel 5:11; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice; very pressingly and earnestly for help, being in great distress: [yet] will I not hear them; as they turned their backs on him, he...
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,...