Ezekiel 8:3

New Century Version

It stretched out the shape of a hand and caught me by the hair on my head. The Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the sky. He took me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple. In the courtyard was the idol that caused God to be jealous.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:12

The Spirit of the Lord may carry you to some other place after I leave. If I go tell King Ahab you are here, and he comes and doesn’t find you, he will kill me! I have followed the Lord since I was a boy.

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 2:16

They said to him, “There are fifty strong men with us. Please let them go and look for your master. Maybe the Spirit of the Lord has taken Elijah up and set him down on some mountain or in some valley.” But Elisha answered, “No, don’t send them.”

2 Kings 21:7

Manasseh carved an Asherah idol and put it in the Temple. The Lord had said to David and his son Solomon about the Temple, “I will be worshiped forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.

Psalm 78:58

They made God angry by building places to worship gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

Exodus 20:4

“You must not make for yourselves an idol that looks like anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the water below the land.

Exodus 20:5

You must not worship or serve any idol, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. If you hate me, I will punish your children, and even your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Exodus 34:14

Don’t worship any other god, because I, the Lord, the Jealous One, am a jealous God.

Jeremiah 32:34

They put their hateful idols in the place where I have chosen to be worshiped, so they made it unclean.

Jeremiah 7:30

The people of Judah have done what I said was evil, says the Lord. They have set up their hateful idols in the place where I have chosen to be worshiped and have made it unclean.

Ezekiel 1:1

It was the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month of our captivity. I was by the Kebar River among the people who had been carried away as captives. The sky opened, and I saw visions of God.

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 11:24

The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the captives who had been taken from Judah to Babylonia. This happened in a vision given by the Spirit of God, and then the vision I had seen ended.

Ezekiel 2:9

Then I looked and saw a hand stretched out to me, and a scroll was in it.

Ezekiel 3:12

Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me, saying, “Praise the glory of the Lord in heaven.”

Ezekiel 3:14

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I was unhappy and angry, and I felt the great power of the Lord.

Ezekiel 37:1

I felt the power of the Lord on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones.

Ezekiel 40:2

In the visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel and put me down on a very high mountain. On the south of the mountain there were some buildings that looked like a city.

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 5:11

So the Lord God says: You have made my Temple unclean with all your evil idols and the hateful things you do. Because of this, as surely as I live, I will cut you off. I will have no pity, and I will show no mercy.

Ezekiel 7:20

They were proud of their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their idols and their evil statues, which I hate. So I will turn their wealth into trash.

Ezekiel 8:5

Then he said to me, “Human, now look toward the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar was the idol that caused God to be jealous.

Ezekiel 9:2

Then six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his powerful weapon in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing case at his side. The men went in and stood by the bronze altar.

Daniel 10:10

Then a hand touched me and set me on my hands and knees. I was so afraid that I was shaking.

Daniel 10:18

The one who looked like a man touched me again and gave me strength.

Daniel 5:5

Suddenly the fingers of a person’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.

Acts 8:39

When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took Philip away; the officer never saw him again. And the officer continued on his way home, full of joy.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They made God jealous with foreign gods and angry with hateful idols.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They used things that are not gods to make me jealous and worthless idols to make me angry. So I will use those who are not a nation to make them jealous; I will use a nation that does not understand to make them angry.

Deuteronomy 4:24

The Lord your God is a jealous God, like a fire that burns things up.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You must not worship or serve any idol, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. If people sin against me and hate me, I will punish their children, even their grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Deuteronomy 6:15

because the Lord your God is a jealous God. He is present with you, and if you worship other gods, he will become angry with you and destroy you from the earth.

Joshua 24:19

Then Joshua said, “You are not able to serve the Lord, because he is a holy God and a jealous God. If you turn against him and sin, he will not forgive you.