Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Five and twenty men - These most probably represented the twenty-four courses of the priests, with the high priest for the twenty-fifth. This was the Persian worship, as their turning their faces to the east plainly shows they were worshipping the rising sun.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Ezekiel 8:16:
Job 31:26
Ezekiel 11:1
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