Ezekiel 8:12

8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? 1  For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”

Ezekiel 12:6

12:6 While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. 2  You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground 3  because I have made you an object lesson 4  to the house of Israel.”

1 tn Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

sn This type of image is explicitly prohibited in the Mosaic law (Lev 26:1).

2 tn Apart from this context the Hebrew term occurs only in Gen 15:17 in reference to the darkness after sunset. It may mean twilight.

3 tn Or “land” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

4 sn See also Ezek 12:11, 24:24, 27.