Ezekiel 8:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thou shalt see, represented in this vision, greater abominations; either because added to all the rest, or because some circumstances in these make them more abominable than what before was represented. Or it may be taken for very great, as when the word is applied to cities, Deuteronomy 1:28 6 10 9:1; to stones, Joshua 10:11,27 1 Kings 7:10; David's wars, 1 Chronicles 22:8; kingdoms, Jeremiah 28:8; and to the marvellous works of God, Job 5:9, Job 9:10 Psalms 136:4; and generally our version keeps to the positive degree, though here they render it by the comparative, and in the 6th verse of this chapter the very selfsame expression is rendered great (not greater) abominations. We need not then perplex our reader with a long discourse, to show wherein these latter sins are greater than the former mentioned; they are all very great. They do; now they are doing these things; instead of worshipping the true God on the sabbath, as he required all his people, the leaders of the people are on the sabbath of the Lord offering incense to their detestable idols.