And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.
And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
A hole in the wall - This we find was not large enough to see what was doing within; and the prophet is directed to dig, and make it larger, Ezekiel 8:8; and when he had done so and entered, he says: -
The door of the court - The seer is brought to another spot. In Ezekiel's time there were various buildings on the space around the inner court which formed a court or courts, not improbably enclosed by a wall. The idolatries here were viewed as taking place in secret, and it is more in accordance with the temple arrangements to suppose that such chambers as would give room for those rites should belong to the outer than to the inner court. The seer is now outside the wall of the outer court, by the door which leads from it out of the temple-boundary. By breaking through the wall he enters into a chamber which stands in the outer court against the wall near the gate.
8:7 The door - The second door, for there were two in the north side.