The hidden chamber of elders

7Then he brought me to the entrance of the court, and I looked, and behold, there was a hole in the wall.

8Then he said to me, “Son of man, please dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall, and behold, there was an opening.

9And he said to me, “Come and see the evil abominations that they are doing here.”

10So I went in and looked, and behold, every form of creeping thing and detestable beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were engraved on the wall all around.

11And seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, were standing before them, each man with his censer in his hand; and the thick cloud of incense was going up.

12Then he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each man in the rooms of his carved image? For they are saying, ‘Yahweh does not see us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.’”

13Then he said to me, “You will again see greater abominations that they are doing.”