This all moves to the concluding vision of this section in chapter 8. The chariot-throne vision appears again, rounding out the prophet’s experience on the plain (8:4; cf. 3:22–23). However, this time that presence is in the temple (8:3), which substantiates the notion that the way Israel treated the temple relates to Ezekiel’s original vision. The two are explicitly related, as chapter 8 reveals. The question concerns how the inhabitants of Jerusalem will
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