Eze 8 | ABEn | STEP | And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting down before me. And came upon me the hand of Adonai the lord .

‏ Ezekiel 8

CHAPTER 8 Idolatry in the Temple

1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, the fifth of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting down before me. And came upon me the hand of Adonai the lord. 2 And I beheld, and behold, a likeness of a man; from his loin, and unto below as fire; and from his loin and above him as the vision of brightness, as an appearance of molten bronze. 3 And he stretched out a likeness of a hand, and he took me up by the decorative hem of my top. And [²took ³me ¹spirit] in between the earth and between the heaven, and led me unto Jerusalem in a vision of God, unto the thresholds of the [²gate ¹inner] looking to the north of which was the monument of the acquirer.

The Glory of The LORD Appears

4 And behold, [⁵was ⁶there ¹glory ²of the lord ³God ⁴of Israel], according to the vision which I beheld in the plain. 5 And he said to me, O son of man, look up with your eyes towards the north. And I looked up with my eyes towards the north. And behold, from the north at the gate, the one towards the east of the altar, was the image of jealousy; this was in the entering it. 6 And he said to me, O son of man, do you see what these do? [²lawless deeds ¹the great] which the house of Israel does here to keep at a distance from my holy places? And still you shall see [²lawless deeds ¹greater]. 7 And he brought me unto the thresholds of the courtyard. And I saw, and behold, [²opening ¹one] in the wall. 8 And he said to me, O son of man, dig in the wall! And I dug in the wall. And behold, a door. 9 And he said to me, Enter, and see the [²lawless deeds ¹evil] which these do here! 10 And I entered and I saw. And behold, every likeness of a crawling thing and a beast, vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, being diagramed upon the wall round about wholly. 11 And seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing before their face; and each [²his incense pan ¹had] in the hand; and the vapor of the incense ascended. 12 And he said to me, You have seen, O son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in darkness, each of them in [³room ²hidden ¹their]; because they said, [³does not ⁴see ¹the ² lord]; the lord has abandoned the earth. 13 And he said to me, Still you will see [²lawless deeds ¹greater] which these do. 14 And he brought me unto the thresholds of the gate of the house of the lord, of the one looking to the north. And behold, there women were sitting down wailing Tammuz. 15 And he said to me, You have seen, O son of man, and still you shall see [²practices ¹greater] than these.

Ezekiel Brought unto the Courtyard

16 And he brought me into the courtyard of the house of the lord, the inner courtyard. And upon the thresholds of the temple of the lord between the columned porch and between the altar were about twenty and five men with their posteriors towards the temple of the lord, and their faces before the east. And these did obeisance according to the east to the sun. 17 And he said to me, You have seen, O son of man, is it a small thing to the house of Judah to commit the lawless deeds which they have done here? For they filled the land of lawlessness, and returned to provoke me to anger. And behold, these stretch out the vine branch as ones sneering. 18 And I shall deal with them with rage. [²shall not ³spare ¹My eye], nor shall I show mercy, and should they call in my ears [²voice ¹with a great], even I will not listen to them.