Ezekiel 8:16 References
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Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord'S house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their abacks to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and bthey were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.
b Deuteronomy 4:19, Deuteronomy 17:3, Job 31:26-28, Jeremiah 44:17
Deuteronomy 4
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"And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, aall the host of heaven, band be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy 17
3
and has gone and aserved other gods and worshiped them, bor the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, cwhich I have not commanded,
Job 31
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And my heart became secretly enticed, And my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
Jeremiah 44
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"But rather we will certainly acarry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the bqueen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as cwe ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had dplenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune.