The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 8:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Every form of creeping things. The words obviously paint the theriomorphic worship of Egypt, the scarabseus probably being prominent. The alliance between Jehoiakim and Pharaoh (2 Kings 24:1-20 :33-35), and which Zedekiah was endeavouring to renew, would naturally bring about a revival of that cultus.

Small chambers in rock or tomb filled with such pictured symbols were specially characteristic of it.

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