Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 8:10
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Ezekiel8:10
10 So I went in, and saw, and behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
According to the Vision.
Of such Creatures as the Egyptians, or any others with whom the Jews had acquaintance did Worship.
The Beasts are here called abominable because Idolaters had abused them to unlawful uses, making Idols of them.
The Jews had multiplied to themselves Idols of their own besides those borrowed from their Neighbours. Or, they are called the Idols of the House of Israel, because they had adopted them, and because Israel's Idolatry was so much more brutish and provoking then that of the other Nations, who had not the Law of God given to them as to the Jews.
Possibly they did thus picture their Idols on the wall, vainly thinking this was not a breach of the Law which forbad graven Images, and molten Images, but every likeness of any thing made for to Worship is forbidden, and such pictures are to be destroyed, Numb. 33.52.
Possibly they had the same set of Idols, by different givers, and by different Painters, drawn on the walls of the Chamber or house of Idols.
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