Ezekiel 8:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now in the direction of the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.

Cross References

Psalm 48:2

beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.

Jeremiah 32:34

They set up their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Jeremiah 7:30

“For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Ezekiel 5:11

Wherefore, as I live, says the Lord God, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

Ezekiel 8:3

He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.