Visionary Journey to Jerusalem

8 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting in front of me,^(A) and there the hand of the Lord God came down on me.^(B)

¹¹ Seventy elders from the house of Israel were standing before them, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan^(A) standing among them. Each had a firepan in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising up. ¹² He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.’”^(B)

Idolatrous Elders Punished

14 Some of the elders of Israel came^(A) to me and sat down in front of me.^(B)