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Before visiting elders, Ezekiel is seized by a fiery vision and carried toward Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 8:1-4

Carried into the Jerusalem vision

Abominations in the Temple Vision · Ezekiel 8

Story guide: The divine appearance is obscured by radiance, and the handlike form is visionary rather than anatomical.

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1And it happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.

2Then I looked, and behold, a form with the appearance of fire: from what appeared to be his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming amber.

3Then he stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in visions of God, to the entrance of the inner gate that faces north, where the seat of the image of jealousy that provokes jealousy was.

4And behold, there was the glory of the God of Israel, like the appearance that I had seen in the valley.

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