John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 8:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, &c.] In the temple, between the cherubim, where the Shechinah or the glory of the divine Majesty dwelt; for as yet he had not removed, though provoked to it, and as he afterwards did; or he was here to destroy the idols, and both city and temple, for the idolatry of the people; or this is here mentioned, to show the baseness and wickedness of the people, that they should place an idol where the Lord himself was: according to the vision that I saw in the plain; it was the same glorious Person he saw in the temple whom he had before seen in the plain, (<260322>Ezekiel 3:22,23); and that was the same he had seen in the vision by the river Chebar, (<260103>Ezekiel 1:3,28).

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