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Abominations in the Temple

1 # [ch. 1:2]; See ch. 20:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, # [2 Kgs. 6:32] as I sat in my house, with # ver. 11, 12; ch. 14:1; 20:1, 3 the elders of Judah sitting before me, # See ch. 1:3 the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there. 2 Then I looked, and behold, # ch. 1:27 a form that had the appearance of a man. # 8:2 By revocalization (compare Septuagint); Hebrew of fire # ch. 1:27 Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was something like the appearance of brightness, like # ch. 1:4, 27 gleaming metal. # 8:2 Or amber 3 He # [Dan. 5:5]; See ch. 2:9 put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up # [2 Cor. 12:2, 4] between earth and heaven and # ch. 11:1, 24; 40:2 brought me in # See ch. 1:1 visions of God to Jerusalem, # ver. 14 to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, # [ch. 5:11] where was the seat of the # [Deut. 4:16] image of jealousy, # Deut. 32:16, 21 which provokes to jealousy. 4 And behold, # See ch. 1:28 the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw # See ch. 3:22 in the valley.

5 Then he said to me, # See ch. 2:1 “Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of # See ver. 16 the altar gate, in the entrance, was this # [See ver. 3 above] image of jealousy. 6 And he said to me, “Son of man, # [ch. 47:6] do you see what they are doing, # See ch. 5:11 the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, # [ch. 10:18, 19] to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”

7 And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, “Son of man, # [ch. 12:5] dig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance. 9 And he said to me, “Go in, and see # See ch. 5:11 the vile abominations that they are committing here.” 10 So I went in and saw. And there, # ch. 23:14 engraved on the wall all around, was # See Ex. 20:4 every form of # Lev. 11:20; Rom. 1:23 creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. 11 And before them stood # [Ex. 24:1; Num. 11:16] seventy men of # See ver. 1 the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of # 2 Chr. 34:8 Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and # [ch. 6:13] the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. 12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing # [ver. 7] in the dark, each # [ver. 10] in his room of pictures? For they say, # ch. 9:9; Ps. 10:11; Isa. 29:15 ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’” 13 He said also to me, # ver. 6 “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”

14 Then he brought me to # ver. 3 the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord , and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O # [See ver. 5 above] son of man? # [See ver. 13 above] You will see still greater abominations than these.”