Ezekiel 8:1-2

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Sinful Things Done at the Temple

8 One day I, Ezekiel, was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting there in front of me. This was on the fifth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of exile.^[a] Suddenly, the power of the Lord God came on me. ²I saw something that looked like fire, like a man’s body. From the waist down, he was like fire. From the waist up, he was bright and shining like hot metal^[b] in a fire.

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 8:1 sixth year of exile This is the fall of 592 B.C.
Ezekiel 8:2 hot metal The Hebrew word might mean “melted copper,” “an alloy of gold and silver,” or “amber.”