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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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Albert Barnes
On Ezekiel 8:11
18th Century
Theologian
Seventy men - Compare (Exodus 24:9–10). The vision may have pointed to the contrast between the times. The number “seven” is sym…
Charles Ellicott
On Ezekiel 8:11
19th Century
Bishop
Seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel. —There may have been no enclosed chamber around the courts of the temple capab…
John Calvin
On Ezekiel 8:7–11
16th Century
Theologian
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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John Gill
On Ezekiel 8:11
17th Century
Pastor
And there stood before them Before the pictures, as the Vulgate Latin version expresses it, praying, sacrificing, and off…
Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 8:7–12
17th Century
Minister
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…