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Ezekiel 8:12

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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 28:2

Context
28:2 “Son of man, say to the prince 2  of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Your heart is proud 3  and you said, “I am a god; 4 

I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –

yet you are a man and not a god,

though you think you are godlike. 5 

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 Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).

3 tn Heb “lifted up.”

sn See Prov 16:5.

4 tn Or “I am divine.”

5 tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”



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