Ezekiel 8:12 meaning and explanation
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
Ezekiel 8:12, Berean Standard Bible
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In Ezekiel 8 the prophet is carried in vision from Babylon to Jerusalem and shown, one scene at a time, the idolatry practised inside the temple. Here God speaks to Ezekiel, called “son of man,” and points to the seventy elders of Israel burning incense in a hidden room, each before his own idol.
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