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 17:15

17:15 But this one from Israel’s royal family 2  rebelled against the king of Babylon 3  by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?

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 Heb “he”; the referent (the member of the royal family, v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

3 tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.