Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall." — Ezekiel 8:7 (ASV)
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, probably 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 chambers that could accommodate these rites should belong to the outer rather than the inner court.
The seer is now outside the wall of the outer court, by the door leading from it out of the temple boundary. By breaking through the wall, he enters a chamber that stands in the outer court against the wall near the gate.