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  • The Message - “The people of Judah have lived evil lives while I’ve stood by and watched.” God’s Decree. “In deliberate insult to me, they’ve set up their obscene god-images in the very Temple that was built to honor me. They’ve constructed Topheth altars for burning babies in prominent places all through the valley of Ben-hinnom, altars for burning their sons and daughters alive in the fire—a shocking perversion of all that I am and all I command.
  • 新标点和合本 - 耶和华说:“犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之物设立在称为我名下的殿中,污秽这殿。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - “犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之偶像立在称为我名下的殿里,玷污这殿。这是耶和华说的。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - “犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之偶像立在称为我名下的殿里,玷污这殿。这是耶和华说的。
  • 当代译本 - 耶和华说:“犹大人做了我视为邪恶的事,把可憎的偶像放在用来敬拜我的圣殿中,玷污了圣殿。
  • 圣经新译本 - “因为犹大人行了我看为恶的事,把他们可憎的偶像安放在称为我名下的殿中,污渎了这殿。”这是耶和华的宣告。
  • 现代标点和合本 - 耶和华说:“犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之物设立在称为我名下的殿中,污秽这殿。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 耶和华说:“犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之物设立在称为我名下的殿中,污秽这殿。
  • New International Version - “ ‘The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.
  • New International Reader's Version - “The people of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes,” announces the Lord. “They have set up statues of their gods. They have worshiped them in the house where my Name is. They have made my house ‘unclean.’ I hate those statues.
  • English Standard Version - “For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.
  • New Living Translation - “The people of Judah have sinned before my very eyes,” says the Lord. “They have set up their abominable idols right in the Temple that bears my name, defiling it.
  • Christian Standard Bible - “For the Judeans have done what is evil in my sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their abhorrent things in the house that bears my name in order to defile it.
  • New American Standard Bible - For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord. “They have put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
  • New King James Version - For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the Lord. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.
  • Amplified Bible - For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the Lord; “they have set their disgusting and shamefully vile things in the house which is called by My Name, to defile it.
  • American Standard Version - For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • King James Version - 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.
  • New English Translation - The Lord says, “I have rejected them because the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and have defiled it.
  • World English Bible - “For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • 新標點和合本 - 耶和華說:「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事,將可憎之物設立在稱為我名下的殿中,污穢這殿。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事,將可憎之偶像立在稱為我名下的殿裏,玷污這殿。這是耶和華說的。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事,將可憎之偶像立在稱為我名下的殿裏,玷污這殿。這是耶和華說的。
  • 當代譯本 - 耶和華說:「猶大人做了我視為邪惡的事,把可憎的偶像放在用來敬拜我的聖殿中,玷污了聖殿。
  • 聖經新譯本 - “因為猶大人行了我看為惡的事,把他們可憎的偶像安放在稱為我名下的殿中,污瀆了這殿。”這是耶和華的宣告。
  • 呂振中譯本 - 『因為 猶大 人行我所看為壞的事,把他們可憎之像立在稱為我名下的殿中,來污瀆它: 這 是永恆主發神諭說 的 。
  • 現代標點和合本 - 耶和華說:「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事,將可憎之物設立在稱為我名下的殿中,汙穢這殿。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 耶和華曰、猶大人行我所惡、以其可憎者、置於我寄名之室、俾染污衊、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華曰、猶大子孫犯罪於我、置可惡之物於殿、使籲我名之所、咸染污衊、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主曰、 猶大 人行惡於我前、以可惡之物、置於為我名而建之殿、使我殿染以污穢、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - »”La gente de Judá ha hecho el mal que yo detesto —afirma el Señor—. Han profanado la casa que lleva mi nombre al instalar allí sus ídolos abominables.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 말씀하신다. “유다 백성들이 내가 보는 데서 악을 행하여 바로 내 성전에다 그들의 우상을 세워 성전을 더럽혔다.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - – Народ Иудеи делал зло в Моих глазах, – возвещает Господь. – Они поставили свои мерзости в доме, который называется Моим именем, осквернив его.
  • Восточный перевод - – Народ Иудеи делал зло в Моих глазах, – возвещает Вечный. – Они поставили своих ничтожных идолов в доме, который называется Моим именем, осквернив его.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Народ Иудеи делал зло в Моих глазах, – возвещает Вечный. – Они поставили своих ничтожных идолов в доме, который называется Моим именем, осквернив его.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Народ Иудеи делал зло в Моих глазах, – возвещает Вечный. – Они поставили своих ничтожных идолов в доме, который называется Моим именем, осквернив его.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Car les gens de Juda ont fait ce que je considère comme mal, l’Eternel le déclare. Ils ont installé leurs abominations dans le Temple qui m’appartient et l’ont ainsi souillé .
  • リビングバイブル - それは、ユダの民がわたしの目の前で罪を犯したからだ。彼らはわたしの神殿に偶像を持ち込み、神殿を汚した。
  • Nova Versão Internacional - “Os de Judá fizeram o que eu reprovo”, declara o Senhor. “Profanaram o templo que leva o meu nome, colocando nele as imagens dos seus ídolos.
  • Hoffnung für alle - Die Bewohner von Juda haben etwas getan, was ich hasse: Im Tempel, der meinen Namen trägt, haben sie ihre abscheulichen Götzen aufgestellt und ihn so entweiht.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúa Hằng Hữu phán: “Con cháu Giu-đa đã làm bao nhiêu tội ác trước mắt Ta. Chúng dám đặt thần tượng trong Đền Thờ được gọi bằng Danh Ta để làm ô nhiễm nó.
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ ‘องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศว่า ชนยูดาห์ทำชั่วในสายตาของเรา พวกเขาได้ตั้งเทวรูปอันน่าชิงชังในนิเวศซึ่งใช้ชื่อของเรา และทำให้ที่นั่นเป็นมลทิน
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระ​ผู้​เป็น​เจ้า​กล่าว​ดัง​นี้ “เพราะ​บรรดา​บุตร​แห่ง​ยูดาห์​ได้​กระทำ​ความ​ชั่ว​ใน​สายตา​ของ​เรา พวก​เขา​ได้​ตั้ง​สิ่ง​ที่​น่าชัง​ของ​พวก​เขา​ไว้​ใน​ตำหนัก​ซึ่ง​ได้​รับ​เรียก​ว่า​เป็น​ของ​เรา และ​ทำ​ให้​ที่​นั้น​เป็น​มลทิน
Cross Reference
  • 2 Kings 23:12 - The king smashed all the altars to smithereens—the altar on the roof shrine of Ahaz, the various altars the kings of Judah had made, the altars of Manasseh that littered the courtyard of The Temple—he smashed them all, pulverized the fragments, and scattered their dust in the Valley of Kidron. The king proceeded to make a clean sweep of all the sex-and-religion shrines that had proliferated east of Jerusalem on the south slope of Abomination Hill, the ones Solomon king of Israel had built to the obscene Sidonian sex goddess Ashtoreth, to Chemosh the dirty-old-god of the Moabites, and to Milcom the depraved god of the Ammonites. He tore apart the altars, chopped down the phallic Asherah-poles, and scattered old bones over the sites. Next, he took care of the altar at the shrine in Bethel that Jeroboam son of Nebat had built—the same Jeroboam who had led Israel into a life of sin. He tore apart the altar, burned down the shrine leaving it in ashes, and then lit fire to the phallic Asherah-pole.
  • 2 Kings 23:4 - Then the king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, his associate priest, and The Temple sentries to clean house—to get rid of everything in The Temple of God that had been made for worshiping Baal and Asherah and the cosmic powers. He had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and then disposed of the ashes in Bethel. He fired the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had hired to supervise the local sex-and-religion shrines in the towns of Judah and neighborhoods of Jerusalem. In a stroke he swept the country clean of the polluting stench of the round-the-clock worship of Baal, sun and moon, stars—all the so-called cosmic powers. He took the obscene phallic Asherah pole from The Temple of God to the Valley of Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it up, then ground up the ashes and scattered them in the cemetery. He tore out the rooms of the male sacred prostitutes that had been set up in The Temple of God; women also used these rooms for weavings for Asherah. He swept the outlying towns of Judah clean of priests and smashed the sex-and-religion shrines where they worked their trade from one end of the country to the other—all the way from Geba to Beersheba. He smashed the sex-and-religion shrine that had been set up just to the left of the city gate for the private use of Joshua, the city mayor. Even though these sex-and-religion priests did not defile the Altar in The Temple itself, they were part of the general priestly corruption and had to go.
  • Ezekiel 8:5 - He said to me, “Son of man, look north.” I looked north and saw it: Just north of the entrance loomed the altar of the sex goddess, Asherah, that makes God so angry.
  • Ezekiel 8:6 - Then he said, “Son of man, do you see what they’re doing? Outrageous obscenities! And doing them right here! It’s enough to drive me right out of my own Temple. But you’re going to see worse yet.” * * *
  • Ezekiel 8:7 - He brought me to the door of the Temple court. I looked and saw a gaping hole in the wall.
  • Ezekiel 8:8 - He said, “Son of man, dig through the wall.” I dug through the wall and came upon a door.
  • Ezekiel 8:9 - He said, “Now walk through the door and take a look at the obscenities they’re engaging in.”
  • Ezekiel 8:10 - I entered and looked. I couldn’t believe my eyes: Painted all over the walls were pictures of reptiles and animals and monsters—the whole pantheon of Egyptian gods and goddesses—being worshiped by Israel. In the middle of the room were seventy of the leaders of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing in the middle. Each held his censer with the incense rising in a fragrant cloud.
  • Ezekiel 8:12 - He said, “Son of man, do you see what the elders are doing here in the dark, each one before his favorite god-picture? They tell themselves, ‘God doesn’t see us. God has forsaken the country.’”
  • Ezekiel 8:13 - Then he said, “You’re going to see worse yet.” * * *
  • Ezekiel 8:14 - He took me to the entrance at the north gate of the Temple of God. I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz, the Babylonian fertility god. He said, “Have you gotten an eyeful, son of man? You’re going to see worse yet.” * * *
  • Ezekiel 8:16 - Finally, he took me to the inside court of the Temple of God. There between the porch and the altar were about twenty-five men. Their backs were to God’s Temple. They were facing east, bowing in worship to the sun.
  • Ezekiel 8:17 - He said, “Have you seen enough, son of man? Isn’t it bad enough that Judah engages in these outrageous obscenities? They fill the country with violence and now provoke me even further with their obscene gestures. That’s it. They have an angry God on their hands! From now on, no mercy. They can shout all they want, but I’m not listening.”
  • Daniel 9:27 - “‘Then for one seven, he will forge many and strong alliances, but halfway through the seven he will banish worship and prayers. At the place of worship, a desecrating obscenity will be set up and remain until finally the desecrator himself is decisively destroyed.’”
  • 2 Kings 21:7 - As a last straw he placed the carved image of the sex goddess Asherah in The Temple of God, a flagrant and provocative violation of God’s well-known statement to both David and Solomon, “In this Temple and in this city Jerusalem, my choice out of all the tribes of Israel, I place my Name—exclusively and forever. Never again will I let my people Israel wander off from this land I gave to their ancestors. But here’s the condition: They must keep everything I’ve commanded in the instructions my servant Moses passed on to them.”
  • 2 Chronicles 33:7 - As a last straw he placed a carved image of the sex goddess Asherah that he had commissioned in The Temple of God, a flagrant and provocative violation of God’s well-known command to both David and Solomon, “In this Temple and in this city Jerusalem, my choice out of all the tribes of Israel, I place my Name—exclusively and forever.” He had promised, “Never again will I let my people Israel wander off from this land I’ve given to their ancestors. But on this condition, that they keep everything I’ve commanded in the instructions my servant Moses passed on to them.”
Parallel VersesCross Reference
  • The Message - “The people of Judah have lived evil lives while I’ve stood by and watched.” God’s Decree. “In deliberate insult to me, they’ve set up their obscene god-images in the very Temple that was built to honor me. They’ve constructed Topheth altars for burning babies in prominent places all through the valley of Ben-hinnom, altars for burning their sons and daughters alive in the fire—a shocking perversion of all that I am and all I command.
  • 新标点和合本 - 耶和华说:“犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之物设立在称为我名下的殿中,污秽这殿。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - “犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之偶像立在称为我名下的殿里,玷污这殿。这是耶和华说的。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - “犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之偶像立在称为我名下的殿里,玷污这殿。这是耶和华说的。
  • 当代译本 - 耶和华说:“犹大人做了我视为邪恶的事,把可憎的偶像放在用来敬拜我的圣殿中,玷污了圣殿。
  • 圣经新译本 - “因为犹大人行了我看为恶的事,把他们可憎的偶像安放在称为我名下的殿中,污渎了这殿。”这是耶和华的宣告。
  • 现代标点和合本 - 耶和华说:“犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之物设立在称为我名下的殿中,污秽这殿。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 耶和华说:“犹大人行我眼中看为恶的事,将可憎之物设立在称为我名下的殿中,污秽这殿。
  • New International Version - “ ‘The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it.
  • New International Reader's Version - “The people of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes,” announces the Lord. “They have set up statues of their gods. They have worshiped them in the house where my Name is. They have made my house ‘unclean.’ I hate those statues.
  • English Standard Version - “For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.
  • New Living Translation - “The people of Judah have sinned before my very eyes,” says the Lord. “They have set up their abominable idols right in the Temple that bears my name, defiling it.
  • Christian Standard Bible - “For the Judeans have done what is evil in my sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their abhorrent things in the house that bears my name in order to defile it.
  • New American Standard Bible - For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord. “They have put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
  • New King James Version - For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the Lord. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.
  • Amplified Bible - For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the Lord; “they have set their disgusting and shamefully vile things in the house which is called by My Name, to defile it.
  • American Standard Version - For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • King James Version - 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.
  • New English Translation - The Lord says, “I have rejected them because the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and have defiled it.
  • World English Bible - “For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • 新標點和合本 - 耶和華說:「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事,將可憎之物設立在稱為我名下的殿中,污穢這殿。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事,將可憎之偶像立在稱為我名下的殿裏,玷污這殿。這是耶和華說的。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事,將可憎之偶像立在稱為我名下的殿裏,玷污這殿。這是耶和華說的。
  • 當代譯本 - 耶和華說:「猶大人做了我視為邪惡的事,把可憎的偶像放在用來敬拜我的聖殿中,玷污了聖殿。
  • 聖經新譯本 - “因為猶大人行了我看為惡的事,把他們可憎的偶像安放在稱為我名下的殿中,污瀆了這殿。”這是耶和華的宣告。
  • 呂振中譯本 - 『因為 猶大 人行我所看為壞的事,把他們可憎之像立在稱為我名下的殿中,來污瀆它: 這 是永恆主發神諭說 的 。
  • 現代標點和合本 - 耶和華說:「猶大人行我眼中看為惡的事,將可憎之物設立在稱為我名下的殿中,汙穢這殿。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 耶和華曰、猶大人行我所惡、以其可憎者、置於我寄名之室、俾染污衊、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 耶和華曰、猶大子孫犯罪於我、置可惡之物於殿、使籲我名之所、咸染污衊、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主曰、 猶大 人行惡於我前、以可惡之物、置於為我名而建之殿、使我殿染以污穢、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - »”La gente de Judá ha hecho el mal que yo detesto —afirma el Señor—. Han profanado la casa que lleva mi nombre al instalar allí sus ídolos abominables.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 말씀하신다. “유다 백성들이 내가 보는 데서 악을 행하여 바로 내 성전에다 그들의 우상을 세워 성전을 더럽혔다.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - – Народ Иудеи делал зло в Моих глазах, – возвещает Господь. – Они поставили свои мерзости в доме, который называется Моим именем, осквернив его.
  • Восточный перевод - – Народ Иудеи делал зло в Моих глазах, – возвещает Вечный. – Они поставили своих ничтожных идолов в доме, который называется Моим именем, осквернив его.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – Народ Иудеи делал зло в Моих глазах, – возвещает Вечный. – Они поставили своих ничтожных идолов в доме, который называется Моим именем, осквернив его.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – Народ Иудеи делал зло в Моих глазах, – возвещает Вечный. – Они поставили своих ничтожных идолов в доме, который называется Моим именем, осквернив его.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Car les gens de Juda ont fait ce que je considère comme mal, l’Eternel le déclare. Ils ont installé leurs abominations dans le Temple qui m’appartient et l’ont ainsi souillé .
  • リビングバイブル - それは、ユダの民がわたしの目の前で罪を犯したからだ。彼らはわたしの神殿に偶像を持ち込み、神殿を汚した。
  • Nova Versão Internacional - “Os de Judá fizeram o que eu reprovo”, declara o Senhor. “Profanaram o templo que leva o meu nome, colocando nele as imagens dos seus ídolos.
  • Hoffnung für alle - Die Bewohner von Juda haben etwas getan, was ich hasse: Im Tempel, der meinen Namen trägt, haben sie ihre abscheulichen Götzen aufgestellt und ihn so entweiht.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Chúa Hằng Hữu phán: “Con cháu Giu-đa đã làm bao nhiêu tội ác trước mắt Ta. Chúng dám đặt thần tượng trong Đền Thờ được gọi bằng Danh Ta để làm ô nhiễm nó.
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ ‘องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าประกาศว่า ชนยูดาห์ทำชั่วในสายตาของเรา พวกเขาได้ตั้งเทวรูปอันน่าชิงชังในนิเวศซึ่งใช้ชื่อของเรา และทำให้ที่นั่นเป็นมลทิน
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระ​ผู้​เป็น​เจ้า​กล่าว​ดัง​นี้ “เพราะ​บรรดา​บุตร​แห่ง​ยูดาห์​ได้​กระทำ​ความ​ชั่ว​ใน​สายตา​ของ​เรา พวก​เขา​ได้​ตั้ง​สิ่ง​ที่​น่าชัง​ของ​พวก​เขา​ไว้​ใน​ตำหนัก​ซึ่ง​ได้​รับ​เรียก​ว่า​เป็น​ของ​เรา และ​ทำ​ให้​ที่​นั้น​เป็น​มลทิน
  • 2 Kings 23:12 - The king smashed all the altars to smithereens—the altar on the roof shrine of Ahaz, the various altars the kings of Judah had made, the altars of Manasseh that littered the courtyard of The Temple—he smashed them all, pulverized the fragments, and scattered their dust in the Valley of Kidron. The king proceeded to make a clean sweep of all the sex-and-religion shrines that had proliferated east of Jerusalem on the south slope of Abomination Hill, the ones Solomon king of Israel had built to the obscene Sidonian sex goddess Ashtoreth, to Chemosh the dirty-old-god of the Moabites, and to Milcom the depraved god of the Ammonites. He tore apart the altars, chopped down the phallic Asherah-poles, and scattered old bones over the sites. Next, he took care of the altar at the shrine in Bethel that Jeroboam son of Nebat had built—the same Jeroboam who had led Israel into a life of sin. He tore apart the altar, burned down the shrine leaving it in ashes, and then lit fire to the phallic Asherah-pole.
  • 2 Kings 23:4 - Then the king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, his associate priest, and The Temple sentries to clean house—to get rid of everything in The Temple of God that had been made for worshiping Baal and Asherah and the cosmic powers. He had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and then disposed of the ashes in Bethel. He fired the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had hired to supervise the local sex-and-religion shrines in the towns of Judah and neighborhoods of Jerusalem. In a stroke he swept the country clean of the polluting stench of the round-the-clock worship of Baal, sun and moon, stars—all the so-called cosmic powers. He took the obscene phallic Asherah pole from The Temple of God to the Valley of Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it up, then ground up the ashes and scattered them in the cemetery. He tore out the rooms of the male sacred prostitutes that had been set up in The Temple of God; women also used these rooms for weavings for Asherah. He swept the outlying towns of Judah clean of priests and smashed the sex-and-religion shrines where they worked their trade from one end of the country to the other—all the way from Geba to Beersheba. He smashed the sex-and-religion shrine that had been set up just to the left of the city gate for the private use of Joshua, the city mayor. Even though these sex-and-religion priests did not defile the Altar in The Temple itself, they were part of the general priestly corruption and had to go.
  • Ezekiel 8:5 - He said to me, “Son of man, look north.” I looked north and saw it: Just north of the entrance loomed the altar of the sex goddess, Asherah, that makes God so angry.
  • Ezekiel 8:6 - Then he said, “Son of man, do you see what they’re doing? Outrageous obscenities! And doing them right here! It’s enough to drive me right out of my own Temple. But you’re going to see worse yet.” * * *
  • Ezekiel 8:7 - He brought me to the door of the Temple court. I looked and saw a gaping hole in the wall.
  • Ezekiel 8:8 - He said, “Son of man, dig through the wall.” I dug through the wall and came upon a door.
  • Ezekiel 8:9 - He said, “Now walk through the door and take a look at the obscenities they’re engaging in.”
  • Ezekiel 8:10 - I entered and looked. I couldn’t believe my eyes: Painted all over the walls were pictures of reptiles and animals and monsters—the whole pantheon of Egyptian gods and goddesses—being worshiped by Israel. In the middle of the room were seventy of the leaders of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing in the middle. Each held his censer with the incense rising in a fragrant cloud.
  • Ezekiel 8:12 - He said, “Son of man, do you see what the elders are doing here in the dark, each one before his favorite god-picture? They tell themselves, ‘God doesn’t see us. God has forsaken the country.’”
  • Ezekiel 8:13 - Then he said, “You’re going to see worse yet.” * * *
  • Ezekiel 8:14 - He took me to the entrance at the north gate of the Temple of God. I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz, the Babylonian fertility god. He said, “Have you gotten an eyeful, son of man? You’re going to see worse yet.” * * *
  • Ezekiel 8:16 - Finally, he took me to the inside court of the Temple of God. There between the porch and the altar were about twenty-five men. Their backs were to God’s Temple. They were facing east, bowing in worship to the sun.
  • Ezekiel 8:17 - He said, “Have you seen enough, son of man? Isn’t it bad enough that Judah engages in these outrageous obscenities? They fill the country with violence and now provoke me even further with their obscene gestures. That’s it. They have an angry God on their hands! From now on, no mercy. They can shout all they want, but I’m not listening.”
  • Daniel 9:27 - “‘Then for one seven, he will forge many and strong alliances, but halfway through the seven he will banish worship and prayers. At the place of worship, a desecrating obscenity will be set up and remain until finally the desecrator himself is decisively destroyed.’”
  • 2 Kings 21:7 - As a last straw he placed the carved image of the sex goddess Asherah in The Temple of God, a flagrant and provocative violation of God’s well-known statement to both David and Solomon, “In this Temple and in this city Jerusalem, my choice out of all the tribes of Israel, I place my Name—exclusively and forever. Never again will I let my people Israel wander off from this land I gave to their ancestors. But here’s the condition: They must keep everything I’ve commanded in the instructions my servant Moses passed on to them.”
  • 2 Chronicles 33:7 - As a last straw he placed a carved image of the sex goddess Asherah that he had commissioned in The Temple of God, a flagrant and provocative violation of God’s well-known command to both David and Solomon, “In this Temple and in this city Jerusalem, my choice out of all the tribes of Israel, I place my Name—exclusively and forever.” He had promised, “Never again will I let my people Israel wander off from this land I’ve given to their ancestors. But on this condition, that they keep everything I’ve commanded in the instructions my servant Moses passed on to them.”
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