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Ezekiel 8:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Ezekiel 8:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 8
Idolatry in the Temple.[a] 1 In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, as I was sitting in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting beside me, suddenly the hand of the Lord fell upon me there.
2 As I looked, I beheld a figure that had the form of a man. From the area of his waist downward, he appeared to be like fire, and upward from his waist, he seemed to have a brilliance like gleaming amber. 3 He stretched forth what appeared to be a hand and grasped me by a lock of my hair. A Spirit then lifted me up between earth and heaven, and in divine visions he brought me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the inner north gate, where stood the idol that arouses one to jealousy.[b]
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- Ezekiel 8:1 When some elders of Judah, fellow deportees, come to consult Ezekiel, the prophet falls unexpectedly into an ecstasy. He sees himself transported to the temple in Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 8:3 The idol that arouses one to jealousy: a mysterious object that excites the wrath of God, whose love for Israel has been betrayed. Tammuz (v. 14), the Adonis of the Greeks, was the god of the first flowering and the spring vegetation in Mesopotamia.
