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Darby's French Translation
Ézéchiel 8:16
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Il me fit donc entrer au parvis du dedans de la maison de l'Eternel, et voici � l'entr�e du Temple de l'Eternel, entre le porche et l'autel, environ vingt-cinq hommes qui avaient le dos tourn� contre le Temple de l'Eternel, et leurs visages tourn�s vers l'Orient, qui se prosternaient vers l'Orient devant le soleil.
Et il me fit entrer dans le parvis int�rieur de la maison de l'�ternel; et voici, � l'entr�e du temple de l'�ternel, entre le portique et l'autel, environ vingt-cinq hommes, qui tournaient le dos au temple de l'�ternel et la face vers l'Orient; ils se prosternaient devant le soleil, vers l'Orient.
Et il me conduisit dans le parvis int�rieur de la maison de l'Eternel. Et voici, � l'entr�e du temple de l'Eternel, entre le portique et l'autel, il y avait environ vingt-cinq hommes, tournant le dos au temple de l'Eternel et le visage vers l'orient; et ils se prosternaient � l'orient devant le soleil.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the inner: Ezekiel 10:3, Ezekiel 40:28, Ezekiel 43:5, Ezekiel 45:19
at the door: 2 Kings 16:14, 2 Chronicles 7:7, Joel 2:17
about: Ezekiel 11:1
with their: Ezekiel 23:35, 1 Kings 8:29, 2 Chronicles 29:6, Jeremiah 2:27, Jeremiah 32:33
their faces: Deuteronomy 4:19, Deuteronomy 17:3, 2 Kings 23:5, 2 Kings 23:11, Job 31:26-28, Jeremiah 44:17, Acts 7:42, Acts 7:43
and they: It seems that the Jews had incorporated every species of idolatry into their worship, Egyptian, Phoenician, and Persian; for this evidently was the Magian worship of the sun.
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 11:11 - by the altar 2 Chronicles 8:12 - on the altar Jeremiah 8:2 - and all Jeremiah 23:11 - in Ezekiel 5:11 - thou hast Ezekiel 7:20 - but Ezekiel 8:6 - greater Ezekiel 9:6 - at the Ezekiel 10:19 - of the east Ezekiel 11:12 - but Ezekiel 14:6 - turn Ezekiel 40:6 - unto Ezekiel 43:17 - look toward
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house,.... The court of the priests, where they offered sacrifice, and into which none might come but themselves:
and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar; the porch that led into the temple, and the brasen altar, the altar of burnt offerings, which was a very sacred place, and reckoned more holy than the court of the priests g
[were] about five and twenty men; the number, more or less, not being exactly known; who they were, whether the priests or princes of the people, is not certain; probably some of both:
with their backs towards the temple of the Lord; that is, the most holy place, which they were obliged to, in order to do what is afterwards affirmed of them; for the sanctuary was built to the west, that in their worship the Jews might not look to the east, as the Gentiles did; wherefore these men, that they might imitate the Gentiles in their idolatry, turned their backs to the most holy place; which is an aggravation of their impiety; casting the utmost contempt on God, his worship, and the place of it:
and their faces towards the east: when the sun rises:
and they worshipped the sun towards the east; as many nations did, though forbidden the Jews by an express law of God, Deuteronomy 4:19; yet this they fell into, and had horses and chariots devoted to this idolatry; see 2 Kings 21:3. The word rendered "worshipped" is compounded of two words; one signifying to "corrupt", the other to "worship": showing that, by worshipping the sun, they corrupted themselves, and the house of God; and so the Targum renders it,
"and, lo, they corrupted themselves, worshipping in the east the sun;''
and so it is explained in the Jerusalem Talmud,
"they corrupted the temple, and worshipped the sun;''
but Kimchi thinks the word h consists of the verb in the past tense, and of the participle; and that the sense is, when the prophet saw the men worshipping the sun to the east, as amazed at it, put this question to those that went in, "do ye worship also?" i so Ben Melech.
g Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 7. fol. 184. 4. h משתחויתם. i Vid. Hottinger. Smegma Orientale, l. 3. par. 1. c. 24. p. 154. who rather is of opinion that the word is compounded of the participle and the particle את, or the pronoun אתם.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The inner court - The court of the priests.
About five and twenty men - Rather, as it were five etc. This was the number of the heads of the 24 courses (shifts) with the high priest presiding over them. These then were the representatives of the priests, as the seventy were of the people. In the temple the seat of the Divine Majesty was at the west, perhaps appointed for this very purpose, to guard against the idolatrous adoration of the rising sun. Therefore the idolatrous priests must in worshipping the false sun-god turn their backs upon the True. The worship of the heavenly bodies was one of the earliest forms of idolatry Job 31:26-27 and was expressly forbidden in the Law Deuteronomy 17:3. In its earliest form, it was conducted without the intervention of images, the adoration being addressed to the heavenly bodies themselves: this form, continued among the Persians, seems to have been introduced afresh into Jerusalem at the time of Ezekiel. Compare, also, 2 Kings 23:11-12. The images (compare Ezekiel 6:4, Ezekiel 6:6) were probably columns set up in honor of the sun, not images in human form. This simpler mode of sunworship was soon changed. The sun, or the god supposed to preside over it, was represented as a person, whose image was set up and adored.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 8:16. Five and twenty men — These most probably represented the twenty-four courses of the priests, with the high priest for the twenty-fifth. This was the Persian worship, as their turning their faces to the east plainly shows they were worshipping the rising sun.
