Ezekiel 8:5

Tree of Life Version

He said to me: “Son of man, lift your eyes toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north. Behold, north of the gate of the altar, was this image provoking jealousy in the entrance.

Cross References

Psalm 48:2

Great is Adonai, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God —His holy mountain.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked Him with their high places, so they aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift your eyes to the barren hills and see! Where have you not been violated? By the wayside you sat waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Jeremiah 32:34

Instead they set up their abominations in the House where My Name is called, to defile it.

Jeremiah 7:30

“The children of Judah have done what is evil in My sight”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“They have set their detestable things in the House that bears My Name to defile it.

Ezekiel 5:11

“Therefore, as I live, says Adonai Elohim, surely, because you have defiled My Sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will shave you off. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.

Ezekiel 8:3

Something like the form of a hand stretched out, and took me by the hair of my head. The Ruach lifted me up between the earth and the heaven. He brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court facing north—where the idol that provokes furious jealousy was.