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He stretched forth what appeared to be a hand and grasped me by a lock of my hair. A Spirit then lifted me up between earth and heaven, and in divine visions he brought me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the inner north gate, where stood the idol that arouses one to jealousy.[a] The glory of the God of Israel was present before me, like the vision I had seen in the valley.

Then the Lord said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” I raised my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the temple gate, a statue of jealousy stood at the entrance.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 8:3 The idol that arouses one to jealousy: a mysterious object that excites the wrath of God, whose love for Israel has been betrayed. Tammuz (v. 14), the Adonis of the Greeks, was the god of the first flowering and the spring vegetation in Mesopotamia.