Hesekiel 8:5

Schlachter Bibel

Und er sprach zu mir: Menschensohn, hebe doch deine Augen auf gegen Mitternacht! Und siehe, da war nördlich vom Altartor dieses Bild der Eifersucht, beim Eingang.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Und er sprach zu mir: du Menschenkind, hebe deine Augen auf gegen Mitternacht, siehe, da stand gegen Mitternacht das verdrießliche Bild am Tor des Altars, eben da man hineingeht.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lift: Jeremiah 3:2, Zechariah 5:5-11

at the: Ezekiel 8:3, Psalms 48:2

Reciprocal: Leviticus 1:11 - he shall Deuteronomy 29:20 - his jealousy 2 Chronicles 36:14 - polluted Jeremiah 7:30 - they Jeremiah 23:11 - in Jeremiah 32:34 - General Ezekiel 5:11 - thou hast Ezekiel 9:6 - and begin Ezekiel 23:38 - they have Ezekiel 40:45 - whose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said he unto me, son of man,.... That is, the glorious Person described above in this vision, the glorious God of Israel, seen by the prophet in the temple, he spoke unto him, calling him son of man; a name by which he often goes in this prophecy:

lift up thine eyes now toward the north; of the mountain of the house without the court, as Jarchi interprets it:

so I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north: being obedient to the heavenly vision:

and behold northward at the gate of the altar; at the northern gate of the inner court, where was the altar of burnt offering, brought by Ahaz; to the north of the altar he built in imitation of that at Damascus,

2 Kings 16:10; and here stood

this image of jealousy in the entry; or the image of this jealousy; the image before mentioned, which provoked the Lord to jealousy; this stood at the entry of the northern gate, which led into the inner court, and to the altar.