Ezekiel 8:6 meaning and explanation

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”

Ezekiel 8:6, Berean Standard Bible

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God is speaking to Ezekiel, a priest in exile in Babylon, and shows him in vision what is happening in the Jerusalem temple. The "idol of jealousy" at the north gate is an image that provokes God's jealous anger, the rightful zeal of a husband whose people have turned to other gods.

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