I was concerned for my holy reputation which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

For seven months Israel will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.

Then the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.

He measured the porch of the gate as 14 feet, and its jambs as 3½ feet; the porch of the gate faced inward.

There were hooks three inches long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

He said to me, “This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,

I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick of 10½ feet high.

and the chambers of the court was 35 feet in width all around the temple on every side.

Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long,

There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.

The glory of the Lord came into the temple by way of the gate that faces east.

Then a wind lifted me up and brought me to the inner court; I watched the glory of the Lord filling the temple.

You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.

Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

This is what you must do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins inadvertently or through ignorance; so you will make atonement for the temple.

I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

They will return in fear and trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria, and I will settle them in their homes,” declares the Lord.

No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of the Lord anymore. So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning.

Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!

They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.