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There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
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Leaders Led the Rebellion
The 'seventy elders' were not random citizens but Israel's leaders. Commentators note the tragic irony: this number deliberately recalls the seventy elders who once stood with Moses before God in covenant. Their secret idolatry shows that the nation's corruption was systemic, starting from the very top.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Seventy men - Compare (Exodus 24:9–10). The vision may have pointed to the contrast between the times. The number “seven” is sym…
19th Century
Anglican
Seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel. —There may have been no enclosed chamber around the courts of the temple capab…
16th Century
Protestant
Now the Prophet is brought to another place, where another kind of abomination is shown. If an idol had been erected in some recess of the…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And there stood before them Before the pictures, as the Vulgate Latin version expresses it, praying, sacrificing, and off…
A secret place was, so to speak, opened, where the prophet saw creatures painted on the walls, and a number of the elders of Israel worshipped befo…
