OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 8:3

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He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north, where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

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Verse 3. Lock, like Habacuc; (Daniel 14:35) or by a bandage, on which parts of the law were written. Hebrew Calmet.—Of jealousy; Baal, (Saint Jerome) or any other idol, ( Bible.) particularly Adonis. verse 14. He fell a victim to the jealousy of Mars.

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