Ezekiel 8:16

New Century Version

Then he brought me into the inner courtyard of the Temple. There I saw about twenty-five men at the entrance to the Temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar. With their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord, they faced east and were worshiping the sun in the east.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:29

Night and day please watch over this Temple where you have said, ‘I will be worshiped there.’ Hear the prayer I pray facing this Temple.

2 Kings 16:14

Ahaz moved the bronze altar that was before the Lord at the front of the Temple. It was between Ahaz’s altar and the Temple of the Lord, but he put it on the north side of his altar.

2 Kings 21:5

He built altars to worship the stars in the two courtyards of the Temple of the Lord.

2 Kings 23:11

Judah’s kings had placed horses at the front door of the Temple of the Lord in the courtyard near the room of Nathan-Melech, an officer. These horses were for the worship of the sun. So Josiah removed them and burned the chariots that were for sun worship also.

2 Kings 23:5

The kings of Judah had chosen priests for these gods. These priests burned incense in the places where gods were worshiped in the cities of Judah and the towns around Jerusalem. They burned incense to Baal, the sun, the moon, the planets, and all the stars of the sky. But Josiah took those priests away.

2 Chronicles 29:6

Our ancestors were unfaithful to God and did what the Lord said was wrong. They left the Lord and stopped worshiping at the Temple where he lives. They rejected him.

2 Chronicles 7:7

Solomon made holy the middle part of the courtyard, which is in front of the Temple of the Lord. There he offered whole burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings. He offered them in the courtyard, because the bronze altar he had made could not hold the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and fat.

Jeremiah 2:27

They say to things of wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to idols of stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ Those people won’t look at me; they have turned their backs to me. But when they get into trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’

Jeremiah 32:33

They turned their backs to me, not their faces. I tried to teach them again and again, but they wouldn’t listen or learn.

Jeremiah 44:17

We promised to make sacrifices to the Queen Goddess, and we will certainly do everything we promised. We will burn incense and pour out drink offerings to worship her, just as we, our ancestors, kings, and officers did in the past. All of us did these things in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were successful, and nothing bad happened to us.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, and the fathers use the wood to make a fire. The women make the dough for cakes of bread, and they offer them to the Queen Goddess. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to make me angry.

Jeremiah 8:2

The bones will be spread on the ground under the sun, moon, and stars that the people loved and served and went after and searched for and worshiped. No one will gather up the bones and bury them. So they will be like dung thrown on the ground.

Ezekiel 10:3

Now the living creatures were standing on the south side of the Temple when the man went in. And a cloud filled the inner courtyard.

Ezekiel 11:1

The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the front gate of the Temple of the Lord, which faces east. I saw twenty-five men where the gate opens, among them Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.

Ezekiel 23:35

“So this is what the Lord God says: You have forgotten me and turned your back on me. So you will be punished for your sexual sins.”

Ezekiel 23:39

They sacrificed their children to their idols. Then they entered my Temple at that very time to dishonor it. That is what they did inside my Temple!

Ezekiel 40:28

Then the man brought me through the south gateway into the inner courtyard. The inner south gateway measured the same as the gateways in the outer wall.

Ezekiel 40:6

Then the man went to the east gateway. He went up its steps and measured the opening of the gateway. It was ten and one-half feet deep.

Ezekiel 43:5

Then the Spirit picked me up and brought me into the inner courtyard. There I saw the Lord’s glory filling the Temple.

Ezekiel 43:8

The kings made my name unclean by putting their doorway next to my doorway, and their doorpost next to my doorpost so only a wall separated me from them. When they did their acts that I hate, they made my holy name unclean, and so I destroyed them in my anger.

Ezekiel 45:19

The priest will take some of the blood from this sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the Temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the posts of the gate to the inner courtyard.

Ezekiel 46:1

“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: The east gate of the inner courtyard will stay shut on the six working days, but it will be opened on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon.

Ezekiel 7:23

“Make chains for captives, because the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

Ezekiel 8:15

He said to me, “Do you see, human? You will see things even more hateful than these.”

Joel 2:17

The priests, the Lord’s servants, should cry between the altar and the entrance to the Temple. They should say, “Lord, have mercy on your people. Don’t let them be put to shame; don’t let other nations make fun of them. Don’t let people in other nations ask, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Deuteronomy 17:3

That person may have served other gods and bowed down to them or to the sun or moon or stars of the sky, which I have commanded should not be done.

Deuteronomy 4:19

When you look up at the sky, you see the sun, moon, and stars, and everything in the sky. But don’t bow down and worship them, because the Lord your God has made these things for all people everywhere.