Ezekiel 8:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

He put

Ezekiel 2:9

Daniel 5:5

Daniel 10:10

To the door

Ezekiel 8:5

2 Kings 16:14

The image

Jeremiah 32:34

Provoketh

General references

Ezekiel 1:8

Bible References

He put

So I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and there was a written scroll in it.

At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king’s palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

Suddenly, a hand touched me and raised me to my hands and knees.

To the door

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” I looked to the north, and there was this offensive statue north of the altar gate, at the entrance.

He took the bronze altar that was before the Lord in front of the temple between his altar and the Lord’s temple, and put it on the north side of his altar.

The image

“Therefore, as I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I am going to cut you off and show you no pity, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable practices and abominations. Yes, I will not spare you.

He appointed His beautiful ornaments for majesty,
but they made their abhorrent images from them,
their detestable things.
Therefore, I have made these
into something filthy for them.

Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the Lord had spoken about to David and his son Solomon, “I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

“For the Judeans have done what is evil in My sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and defiled it.

They have placed their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and have defiled it.

Provoketh

You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

You are never to bow down to another god because Yahweh, being jealous by nature, is a jealous God.

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

You must not bow down to them or worship them, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers’ sin to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise, the Lord your God will become angry with you and wipe you off the face of the earth.

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods;
they enraged Him with detestable practices.

But Joshua told the people, “You will not be able to worship Yahweh, because He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not remove your transgressions and sins.

They enraged Him with their high places
and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

General references

They had human hands under their wings on their four sides. All four of them had faces and wings.