Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 8:7

"And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall." — Ezekiel 8:7 (ASV)

To the door of the court. — This is clearly a different place from where the prophet had previously been in his vision, yet it is not described in such a way that its location can be definitively fixed.

He had been inside the inner court near its north gate; in Ezekiel 8:14, he is taken to the north gate of the outer enclosure of the temple precincts. It is probable, therefore, that this new location was between these two courts.

We do not know from the description of Solomon’s temple that there were any courts other than the inner and the outer ones. However, since there were others in Herod's temple, built on the same area, it is altogether likely that a further division existed. It was to such a dividing wall, with chambers attached, that the prophet was now brought.

Here he finds a hole, or window, too small for entrance, and is directed to enlarge it so that he can go in. Having done so, he finds a door which he is told to enter.

The object of this part of the vision is to show the extreme secrecy of what he is now to see—a secrecy made necessary by this idolatry's connection with Egypt, the foe of Chaldea. Any question regarding how the idolaters themselves entered is out of place, since it is all only a vision.