Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
Here Ezekiel relates an event worthy of notice. For this was not a mere vision, but a real transaction, since some of the elders of Israel came to him for the sake of consultation. He says that he sat, as men who are perplexed and astonished by evils are accustomed to do, when they see no remedy.
These elders came feigning piety, sitting gravely as God's people do, but God saw what they truly were: idolaters playing at religion, consulting the prophet as they would any false oracle, curious and self-deceived. Bad men have always dressed themselves in the clothes of devotion.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 14:1-11
Then came certain, of the elders of Israel unto me,.... The Syriac version adds, "to consult the Lord"; by the prophet. These, according to Kimchi, were the elders of the captivity, the heads of the captives that were now in Babylon with Ezekiel: but there are others that think they were some that came from Jerusalem to Babylon on some business or another; and having...