Ezekiel 8:10
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So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
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God, having given the prophet a clear foresight of the people's miseries that were hastening on, here gives him a clear insight into the people's wickedness, by which God was provoked to bring these miseries upon them, that he might justify God in all his judgments, might the more particularly reprove the sins of the people, and with the more satisfaction foretel their ruin. Here God, in vision, brings him to Jerusalem, to show him the sins that were committed there, though God had begun to contend with them (Eze 8:1-4), and there he sees, I. The image of jealousy set up at the gate of the altar (Eze 8:5, Eze 8:6). II. The elders of Israel worshipping all manner of images in a secret chamber (Eze 8:7-12). III. The women weeping for Tammuz (Eze 8:13, Eze 8:14). IV. The men worshipping the sun (Eze 8:15, Eze 8:16). And then appeals to him whether such a provoking people should have any pity shown them (Eze 8:17, Eze 8:18).
Open source ↗8:10 The practice of worshiping deities shaped like crawling animals and detestable creatures most likely came from Egypt.
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You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
You must not eat any detestable thing.
Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.