Ezekiel 8:12
Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘The LORD doesn’t see us. The LORD has forsaken the land.’”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
13He said also to me, “You will again see more of the great abominations which they do.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
Job 22:12“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job 24:15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
Psalms 73:11They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
Ezekiel 8:6He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 8:8-13
Secret Abominations Discovered; The Chambers of Imagery. ( b. c. 593.) 7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round… Read the whole commentary →