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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Ezekiel 8 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Ezekiel 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/7.htm" title="Ezekiel 7">◄</a> Ezekiel 8 <a href="../ezekiel/9.htm" title="Ezekiel 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/ezekiel/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Idolatry in the Temple</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, the hand of the Sovereign <span class="name">Lord</span> came on me there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I looked, and I saw a figure like that of a man. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or saw a fiery figure">a</a></sup></span> From what appeared to be his waist down he was like fire, and from there up his appearance was as bright as glowing metal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And there before me was the glory of the God of Israel, as in the vision I had seen in the plain.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then he said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the utterly detestable things the Israelites are doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then he brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he said to me, “Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The <span class="name">Lord</span> does not see us; the <span class="name">Lord</span> has forsaken the land.’ ” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Again, he said, “You will see them doing things that are even more detestable.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and I saw women sitting there, mourning the god Tammuz. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>saw a fiery figure</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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