Ezekiel 8:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

Ezekiel 8:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 29:15
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Amos 9:2-3
Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: …
Job 34:22
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Jeremiah 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 2:34
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-12)

We have here a further discovery of the abominations that were committed at Jerusalem, and within the confines of the temple, too. Now observe, I. How this discovery is made. God, in vision, brought Ezekiel to the door of the court, the outer court, along the sides of which the priests’ lodgings were. God could have introduced him at first into the chambers of imagery, but he brings him to them by…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. dig--for it had been blocked up during Josiah’s reformation. Or rather, the vision is not of an actual scene, but an ideal pictorial representation of the Egyptian idolatries into which the covenant-people had relapsed, practising them in secret places where they shrank from the light of day [Fairbairn], (Joh 3:20). But compare, as to the literal introduction of idolatries into the temple, Eze…