Ezekiel 8:16

So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

Cross References (20)

  • Deuteronomy 4:19 (11)

    When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and

  • Deuteronomy 17:3 (10)

    and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have for

  • Jeremiah 32:33 (9)

    They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or r

  • Ezekiel 11:1 (8)

    Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entra

  • Jeremiah 2:27 (8)

    say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not thei

  • Job 31:26–28 (7)

    if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

  • Joel 2:17 (6)

    Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD,

  • Ezekiel 43:5 (6)

    Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

  • Jeremiah 44:17 (5)

    Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to

  • Acts 7:42–43 (4)

    But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of t

  • Ezekiel 40:28 (3)

    Next he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurem

  • 1 Kings 8:29 (3)

    May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so

  • 2 Kings 23:11 (3)

    And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. T

  • Ezekiel 45:19 (3)

    And the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, on the four

  • Ezekiel 10:3 (3)

    Now when the man went in, the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple, and a cloud filled the inner court

  • Ezekiel 23:35 (3)

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bea

  • 2 Kings 16:14 (3)

    He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the hou

  • 2 Chronicles 29:6 (3)

    For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces aw

  • 2 Kings 23:5 (3)

    Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of th

  • 2 Chronicles 7:7 (1)

    Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt o