Idol Worship in the Temple

⁷ Then the Spirit^[a] brought me to the entrance of the court. As I watched, all of a sudden, there was a^[b] hole in the wall! ⁸ Then he told me, “Son of Man, dig through the wall!” So I dug into the wall. That’s when I uncovered an entrance!

⁹ Then he told me, “Go on through that entrance, so you may see the wicked, detestable things that they’re committing here.”

¹⁰ So I entered, looked around, and there was every form of crawling thing, loathsome animals, and all kinds of idols from the house of Israel carved all around the wall. ¹¹ I saw 70 men from the elders of the house of Israel standing among them, including Shaphan’s son Jaazaniah. Each man held a censer in his hand. As the scent of the cloud of incense ascended, ¹² the Spirit^[c] asked me, “Do you see, Son of Man, what the elders of Israel’s house are doing in secret, each in the chamber of his own carved idol? They keep saying, ‘God doesn’t see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.’”

¹³ Then the Spirit^[d] told me, “You’re about to see even more detestable practices that they’re doing!”