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

And when I looked, behold, a hand was sent to me; and lo, a roll of a book was in it;

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

And behold, a hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.

To the door

Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up thy eyes now the way towards the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way towards the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the LORD, from the front of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

The image

Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thy abominations, therefore I will also diminish thee; neither shall my eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

Provoketh

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God should be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions, nor your sins.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons.

General references

And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.