Ezekiel 8:7-13

International Children’s Bible

⁷ Then the Lord brought me to the entry of the courtyard. When I looked, I saw a hole in the wall. ⁸ The Lord said to me, “Human being, dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and saw an entrance.

⁹ Then the Lord said to me, “Go in and see the terrible, evil things they are doing here.” ¹⁰ So I entered and looked. And I saw pictures of every kind of crawling thing. I saw awful beasts and all the idols of the people of Israel. They were carved on the wall all around. ¹¹ Seventy of the elders of Israel were standing there. They were in front of these carvings and idols. Jaazaniah son of Shaphan stood with them. Each man had his pan for burning incense in his hand. A sweet-smelling cloud of incense was rising.

¹² Then the Lord said to me, “Human being, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the dark? Have you seen each man in the room of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord doesn’t see us. The Lord has left the land.’” ¹³ And he said to me, “You will see even more terrible things that they are doing.”