Ezekiel 8:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "all the".

Lo. Figure of speech Asterismce. App-6.

the branch. the Asherah (App-42), represented by. branch out to. certain shape.

their. This is one of the eighteen emendations of the Sepherim (App-33), by which they record their change of'aphphi (My nostrils) of the primitive text, to' aphpham (their nostrils), in order to remove what was thought to be an indelicate and derogatory Anthropomorphism.

Ezekiel 8:17

17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.