Ezekiel 8:7-13

The Voice

⁷He then led me to the entrance of the temple court. I looked and saw an opening in the wall.

Eternal One: ⁸Son of man, dig through this wall.

So I dug through the wall, widening that small hole until I saw another entrance.

Eternal One: ⁹Go inside, and witness the shocking sins being committed by the people of Israel.

¹⁰And so I went in and looked around. It was unbelievable! There were engravings all over the wall of every forbidden thing—reptiles, impure animals, and all the lifeless idols worshiped by the people of Israel. ¹¹In front of the idols stood the 70 elders of Israel’s community, worshiping. Even Jaazaniah, son of Shaphan (a leader of Josiah’s reforms), was standing with them. Each one of the elders held a censer, and a perfumed cloud of incense was ascending from them.

Eternal One: ¹²Son of man, are you seeing what each of the elders of Israel is doing in the dark with their carved images? They are foolish enough to say, “The Eternal does not see what we are doing since He abandoned the land to our Babylonian conquerors and their gods.”^[a]

¹³This isn’t even the worst of it. You will see them doing things far more shocking than this.

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