Ezekiel 8:11 meaning and explanation
Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
Ezekiel 8:11, Berean Standard Bible
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Ezekiel is in Babylon, and the Spirit carries him in vision to the Jerusalem temple, where God shows him the secret idolatry of the nation's leaders. Here the seventy elders, Israel's representative council, stand in a hidden room walled with images of creeping things and beasts, offering incense to idols.
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