Eze 8:10-12 | NETfull | STEP | So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast – detestable images – and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.

Ezekiel 8:10-12

10 So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure ^{▼▼ Or “pattern.”} of creeping thing and beast – detestable images ^{▼▼ Heb “detestable.” The word is often used to describe the figures of foreign gods.} – and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around. ^{▼▼ These engravings were prohibited in the Mosaic law (Deut 4:16–18).} 11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel ^{▼▼ Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship (Exod 24:1, 9).} (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant ^{▼▼ The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.} vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

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? ^{▼▼ Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.} ^{▼▼ This type of image is explicitly prohibited in the Mosaic law (Lev 26:1).} For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”