Ezekiel 7-9

The Pitiless Wrath of Yahweh

Eze 7:2 LSB - [2] "Now as for you, son of man, thus says Lord Yahweh to the land 'ăḏāmâ of Israel, 'An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the earth. 'ereṣ

Eze 7:19 LSB - [19] 'They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an impure thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the fury of Yahweh. They cannot satisfy their soul, nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

The Temple Profaned

Eze 7:27 LSB - [27] 'The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will be dismayed. According to their way I will deal with them, and by their judgments I will judge them. And they will know that I am Yahweh.'"

Visions of Abominations in the Sanctuary

Eze 8:3 LSB - [3] He sent 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 the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner [court], where the seat of the figure of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was [located].

Exo 34:14 LSB - [14] --for you shall not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God--

Deu 32:16 LSB - [16] "They made Him jealous with strange [gods]; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

1Co 10:20-22 LSB -

[20] [No], but [I say] that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they SACRIFICE TO DEMONS AND NOT TO GOD. And I do not want you to become sharers in demons.

[21] You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

[22] Or do we PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY? Are we stronger than He?

Eze 8:5 LSB - [5] Then He said to me, "Son of man, raise your eyes now toward the north." So I raised my eyes toward the north, and behold, to the north of the altar gate [was] this figure of jealousy at the entrance.

Eze 8:10-11 LSB -
[10] So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts [and] detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.
[11] Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising.

2Ki 22:8 LSB - [8] Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahweh." And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan and he read it.

Jer 26:24 LSB - [24] But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to put him to death.

Eze 8:14 LSB - [14] Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the house of Yahweh which [was] toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

Ezek. 8:14–15 Moving farther north, Ezekiel sees women weeping for Tammuz. This ancient Mesopotamian cult celebrated the shepherd-king and god of vegetation. Mourning rites among women in this cult are recorded in extrabiblical sources. 

Eze 8:16 LSB - [16] Then He brought me into the inner court of the house of Yahweh. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, [were] about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

The Vision of Yahweh’s Wrath

Eze 9:4, 6 LSB - [4] Yahweh said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, [even] through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being done in its midst." ... 

[6] "Kill to [utter] destruction old men, chosen men, virgins, little ones, and women, but do not touch any man on whom is the mark; and you shall start from My sanctuary." So they started with the elders who [were] before the house.