⁶ I heard someone speaking to me from the Temple, and a man appeared, standing beside me!

God to Live among His People

⁷ “Son of Man,” the Lord God told^[a] me, “This is where my throne is, where I place the soles of my feet, and where I will live among the Israelis forever. The house of Israel will no longer defile my holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their unfaithfulness, by the lifeless idols^[b] of their kings on their funeral mounds,^{[c] 8} by their setting up their threshold too close to my threshold and their door post too close to my door post, with a wall between me and them. After all, they have defiled my holy name by the loathsome things that they did, so I devoured them in my anger. ⁹ But now let them send their unfaithfulness—that is, the lifeless idols^[d] of their kings—far away from me, and I will live among them forever.”

Ezekiel Describes the Temple

¹⁰ “And now, Son of Man, describe the Temple to the house of Israel. They will be ashamed because of their sin. They will measure its pattern. ¹¹ If they are ashamed of everything that they’ve done, you are to reveal to them the design of the Temple, its structure, its exits and entrances, its plans, its ordinances, and all of its regulations. Write it down where they can see it and remember all of its designs and regulations, so they will implement them. ¹² This is to be the regulation for the Temple: the entire area on top of the mountain is to be considered wholly consecrated. This is to be the law of the Temple.”