Ezekiel 8:5

Then said he unto me, Son of man Lift up. I pray thee thine eyes, the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and lo! on the north by the gate of the altar, this Statue of Jealousy, in the entrance.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

In Context

4and lo! there, the glory of the God of Israel, like the appearance which I had seen in the valley.

6Then said he unto me, Son of man Canst thou see what they are doing,—the great abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, that I should go faraway from my sanctuary? Howbeit yet again, shalt thou see great abominations.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:58And provoked him to anger with their high places, And, with their images, used to move him to jealousy.

Jeremiah 32:34But have set their abominations in the house on which my name hath been called, to defile it;

Ezekiel 8:3Then put he forth the similitude of a hand, and took me by the forelock of my head,—and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in the visions of God into the opening of the inner gate that looketh toward the north, where was the seat of the Statue of Jealousy. that provoketh to jealousy;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 8:2-7

The Vision of the Divine Glory. ( b. c. 593.) 1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. 2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of… Read the whole commentary →

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