Ezekiel 8:3

Easy To Read Version

Then I saw something that looked like an arm. The arm reached out and grabbed me by the hair on my head. Then the wind {\cf2\super [60]} lifted me into the air. And in God’s vision, {\cf2\super [61]} he took me to Jerusalem. He took me to the inner gate—the gate that is on the north side. The statue that makes God jealous is by that gate.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:12

If I go tell King Ahab that you are here, then the Lord might carry you to some other place. King Ahab will come here, and he will not be able to find you. Then he will kill me! I have followed the Lord since I was a boy.

2 Kings 16:14

Ahaz took the bronze altar that was before the Lord from the front of the temple. [193] This bronze altar was between Ahaz’s altar [194] and the temple of the Lord. Ahaz put the bronze altar on the north side of his own altar.

2 Kings 2:16

They said to him, “Look, we have 50 good men. Please let them go and look for your master. Maybe the Lord’s Spirit has taken Elijah up and dropped him on some mountain or in some valley.”

2 Kings 21:7

Manasseh made a carved statue of Asherah. [258] He put this statue in the temple. The Lord had said to David and to David’s son Solomon about this temple: “I have chosen Jerusalem from all the cities in Israel. I will put my name in the temple in Jerusalem forever.

Psalm 78:58

The people of Israel built high places {\cf2\super [453]} \par and made God angry.\par They built statues of false gods\par and made God very jealous.\par

Exodus 20:4

“You must not make any idols. [124] Don’t make any statues or pictures of anything up in the sky or of anything on the earth or of anything down in the water.

Exodus 20:5

Don’t worship or serve idols of any kind. Why? Because I, the Lord, am your God. I hate my people worshiping other gods. [125] People who sin against me become my enemies. And I will punish those people. And I will punish their children, their grandchildren, and even their great-grandchildren.

Exodus 34:14

Don’t worship any other god. I am YAHWEH KANAH—the jealous Lord. That is my name. I am EL KANAH—the jealous God.

Jeremiah 32:34

Those people have made their idols—and I hate those idols. They put their idols in the temple {\cf2\super [271]} that is called by my name. In this way, they made my temple ‘dirty.’

Ezekiel 10:3

The Cherub angels {\cf2\super [82]} were standing in the area south {\cf2\super [83]} of the temple as the man walked to them. The cloud filled the inner courtyard.

Ezekiel 11:1

Then the wind {\cf2\super [94]} carried me to the East Gate of the Lord’s temple. This gate faces the east, \{where the sun comes up\}. I saw 25 men there at the entrance of this gate. Jaazaniah son of Azzur was with those men. And Pelatiah son of Benaiah was there. Pelatiah was the leader of the people.

Ezekiel 3:12

Then the wind {\cf2\super [24]} lifted me up and I heard a voice behind me. It was very loud, like thunder. \{It said,\} “Blessed is the Glory of the Lord!”

Ezekiel 3:14

The wind {\cf2\super [25]} lifted me and took me away. I left that place. I was very sad and upset in my spirit. {\cf2\super [26]} But I felt Lord’s power in me!

Ezekiel 37:1

The Lord’s power came on me. The Spirit {\cf2\super [285]} of the Lord carried me \{out of the city\} and put me down in the middle of the valley. {\cf2\super [286]} The valley was full of dead men’s bones.

Ezekiel 40:2

In a vision, {\cf2\super [307]} God carried me to the land of Israel. He put me down near a very high mountain. On that mountain in front of me was a building that looked like a city. {\cf2\super [308]}

Ezekiel 43:5

Then the Spirit {\cf2\super [397]} picked me up and brought me into the inner courtyard. The Glory of the Lord filled the temple.

Ezekiel 43:8

They won’t bring shame to my name by putting their threshold next to my threshold, and their door post next to my door post. In the past, only a wall separated them from me. So they brought shame to my name every time they sinned and did those terrible things. That is why I became angry and destroyed them.

Ezekiel 5:11

The Lord my Master says, “\{Jerusalem,\} I promise by my life \{that I will punish you\}! I promise that I will punish you! Why? Because you did terrible things to my Holy Place. You did horrible things that made it dirty! I will punish you! I won’t show any mercy. I will not feel sorry for you!

Ezekiel 7:20

“Those people used their beautiful jewelry and made an idol. They were proud of that statue. They made their terrible statues. They made those filthy things. So I (God) will throw them away like a dirty rag.

Ezekiel 8:5

\{God\} spoke to me. He said, “Son of man, {\cf2\super [62]} look towards the north!” So I looked towards the north. And there, north of the Altar Gate by the entrance, was that statue that made God jealous.

Ezekiel 9:2

Then I saw six men walking on the road from the upper gate. This gate is on the north side. Each man had his own deadly weapon in his hand. One of the men wore linen clothes. {\cf2\super [73]} He wore a scribe’s pen and ink set {\cf2\super [74]} at his waist. Those men went to the bronze altar \{in the temple\} and stood there.

Daniel 10:10

“Then a hand touched me. When that happened I got on my hands and knees. I was so afraid that I was shaking.

Daniel 10:18

“The one that looked like a man touched me again. When he touched me I felt better.

Daniel 5:5

Then all of a sudden, a man’s hand appeared and began writing on the wall. The fingers scratched words into the plaster on the wall. The hand wrote on the wall there in the king’s house near the lampstand. The king was watching the hand as it wrote.

Acts 8:39

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit {\cf2\super [182]} of the Lord took Philip away; the officer never saw him again. The officer continued on his way home. He was very happy.

Deuteronomy 32:16

The Lord’s people made him jealous— They worshiped other gods! They worshiped those horrible idols. And that made God angry.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made me jealous with {demons} that aren’t gods. They made me angry with those worthless idols. So I will make them jealous with people that are not a real nation. I will make them angry with people that are a foolish [213] nation.

Deuteronomy 4:24

Why? Because the Lord your God hates for his people to worship other gods. And the Lord can be like a fire that destroys!

Deuteronomy 5:9

Don’t worship or serve idols of any kind. Why? Because I am the Lord your God. I hate for my people to worship other gods. [26] People who sin against me become my enemies. And I will punish those people. And I will punish their children, their grandchildren, and even their great-grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 6:15

The Lord your God is always with you. And the Lord hates his people worshiping other gods! So if you follow those other gods, the Lord will become very angry at you. He will destroy you from the face of the earth.

Joshua 24:19

Then Joshua said, “{That is not true.} You will not be able to continue serving the Lord. The Lord God is holy. And God hates his people worshiping other gods. God will not forgive you if you turn against him like that.