Ezekiel 8
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And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

I beheld

Ezekiel 1:4,26,27 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great …

Daniel 7:9,10 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days …

Revelation 1:14,15 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and …

amber. Amber is a hard, inflammable, bituminous substance, of a beautiful yellow colour, very transparent, and susceptible of an exquisite polish. When rubbed it is highly endowed with electricity; a name which the moderns have formed from its Greek name []. But, as amber becomes dim as soon as it feels the fire, and is speedily consumed, it is probable that the original chasmal, which Bochart derives from the Chaldee nechash, copper, and melala, gold, was a mixed metal, similar to that which the Greeks called [] electrum, as the LXX and Vulgate render, from its resemblance to amber in colour.

And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

he put

Ezekiel 2:9 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent to me; and, see, a roll …

Daniel 5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand…

Daniel 10:10,18 And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on …

the spirit

Ezekiel 3:14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, …

Ezekiel 11:1,24 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate …

Ezekiel 40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and …

1 Kings 18:12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the …

2 Kings 2:16 And they said to him, Behold now, there be with your servants fifty …

Acts 8:39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord …

2 Corinthians 12:2-4 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the …

Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great …

Revelation 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set …

to the door

Ezekiel 8:5 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward …

2 Kings 16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the LORD, …

the image

Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled …

Ezekiel 7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty…

2 Kings 21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, …

Jeremiah 7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, said the LORD…

Jeremiah 32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by …

provoketh

Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …

Exodus 34:14 For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, …

Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 5:9 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …

Deuteronomy 6:15 (For the LORD your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger …

Deuteronomy 32:16,21 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations …

Joshua 24:19 And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he …

Psalm 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved …

1 Corinthians 10:21,22 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you …

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

seest

Ezekiel 8:12,17 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the ancients of …

Jeremiah 3:6 The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you …

Jeremiah 7:17 See you not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

even

Ezekiel 8:9,17 And he said to me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that …

Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled …

Ezekiel 7:20-22 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty…

Ezekiel 23:38,39 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary …

2 Kings 23:4-6 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of …

Proverbs 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.

Jeremiah 7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, said the LORD…

Jeremiah 23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I …

Jeremiah 32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by …

that I

Ezekiel 10:19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth …

Ezekiel 11:22 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels beside …

Deuteronomy 31:16-18 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; …

2 Chronicles 36:14-17 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed …

Psalm 78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

Jeremiah 26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city …

Lamentations 2:6,7 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of …

greater

Ezekiel 8:11,14,16 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house …

And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

the inner

Ezekiel 10:3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man …

Ezekiel 40:28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured …

Ezekiel 43:5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, …

Ezekiel 45:19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put …

at the door

2 Kings 16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the LORD, …

2 Chronicles 7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before …

Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch …

about

Ezekiel 11:1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate …

with their

Ezekiel 23:35 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have forgotten me, …

1 Kings 8:29 That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even …

2 Chronicles 29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in …

Jeremiah 2:27 Saying to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought …

Jeremiah 32:33 And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught …

their faces

Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, …

Deuteronomy 17:3 And has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the …

2 Kings 23:5,11 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had …

Job 31:26-28 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness…

Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do whatever thing goes forth out of our own …

Acts 7:42,43 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; …

and they. It seems that the jews had incorporated every species of idolatry into their worship, Egyptian, Phoenician, and Persian; for this evidently was the Magian worship of the sun.

Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

It is a light, etc. or, Is there any thing lighter than to commit
for

Ezekiel 7:23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city …

Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah …

Ezekiel 11:6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled …

Genesis 6:13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for …

2 Kings 21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled …

2 Kings 24:4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem …

Jeremiah 6:7 As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness: …

Jeremiah 19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and …

Jeremiah 20:8 For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because …

Amos 3:10 For they know not to do right, said the LORD, who store up violence …

Amos 6:3 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

Micah 2:2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and …

Micah 6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants …

Zephaniah 1:9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, …

they put. So the Vulgate has, applicant ramum ad nares suas, `they apply the brach to their nose;' which Jerome explains by `a branch of the palm tree which they adored the idols;' and it seems plainly to allude to the Magian fire-worshippers, who, Strabo tells us held a little bunch of twigs in their hand, when praying before the fire.

Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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