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Vision of Abominations in the Temple. He stretched out the form of a hand and seized me by the hair of my head. The spirit lifted me up[a] between earth and heaven and brought me in divine vision to Jerusalem(A) to the entrance of the inner gate facing north where the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy stood.

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  1. 8:3 The spirit lifted me up: the prophet is transported in vision from Babylon to Jerusalem. Ezekiel may be drawing on his memory of the Temple from before his exile in 598 B.C. The statue of jealousy: the statue which provokes the Lord’s outrage against the insults of his own people; perhaps the statue of the goddess Asherah set up by Manasseh, king of Judah (cf. 2 Kgs 21:7; 2 Chr 33:7, 15). Although his successor, Josiah, had removed it (2 Kgs 23:6), the statue may have been set up again after his death.

In his hand he held a small scroll that had been opened. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,[a]

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  1. 10:2 He placed…on the land: this symbolizes the universality of the angel’s message, as does the figure of the small scroll open to be read.