THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Ezekiel Chapter 1 to 20)

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Ezekiel 8:3 (NLT)
He reached out what seemed to be a hand and took me by the hair. Then the spirit lifted me up into the sky and transported me to Jerusalem in a vision from God. I was taken to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple, where there is a large idol that has made the LORD very jealous.
 
Ezekiel 8:5 (NLT)
Then the LORD said to me: "Son of man, look toward the north." So I looked, and there toward the north beside the entrance to the gate near the altar, stood the idol that had made the LORD so jealous.
 
Ezekiel 8:6 (NLT)
"Son of man," he said, "do you see what they are doing? Do you see the detestable sins the people of Israel are committing to drive me away from my Temple? But come and you will see even more detestable sins than these!"
 
Ezekiel 8:8 (NLT)
He said to me, "Now, son of man, dig into the wall." So I dug into the wall and found a hidden doorway.
 
Ezekiel 8:10 (NLT)
So I went in and saw the walls covered with engravings of all kinds of crawling animals and detestable kinds of creatures. I also saw the various Idols worshiped by the people of Israel.
 
Ezekiel 8:11 (NLT)
Seventy leaders of Israel were standing there with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan in the center. Each of them held an incense burner, a cloud of incense rose above their heads.
 
Ezekiel 8:12 (NLT)

12 Then the Lord said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the leaders of Israel are doing with their idols in dark rooms? They are saying, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us; he has deserted our land!’”
 
Ezekiel 8:16 (NLT) - 16 Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the Lord’s Temple. At the entrance to the sanctuary, between the entry room and the bronze altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs to the sanctuary of the Lord. They were facing east, bowing low to the ground, worshiping the sun!
 
Ezekiel 8:17 (NLT) - 17 “Have you seen this, son of man?” he asked. “Is it nothing to the people of Judah that they commit these detestable sins, leading the whole nation into violence, thumbing their noses at me, and provoking my anger?
 
Ezekiel 8:18 (NLT) - 18 Therefore, I will respond in fury. I will neither pity nor spare them. And though they cry for mercy, I will not listen.”
 
Ezekiel 9:1 (NLT) - 1 Then the Lord thundered, “Bring on the men appointed to punish the city! Tell them to bring their weapons with them!”
 
Ezekiel 9:2 (NLT) - 2 Six men soon appeared from the upper gate that faces north, each carrying a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man dressed in linen, who carried a writer’s case at his side. They all went into the Temple courtyard and stood beside the bronze altar.
 
Ezekiel 9:3 (NLT)

Then the glory of the God of Israel rose up between the cherubim, where it had rested, and moved to the entrance of the temple. And the LORD called to the man dressed in linen who was carrying the writers case.
 
Ezekiel 9:4 (NLT)
He set to him, "walk through the streets of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of all who weep and sigh because of the detestable sins being committed in their city."
 
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