is pictured as seated on a throne, “high and exalted” (v. 1), which Motyer noted was the same pair of words used of the Servant of the Lord in Isaiah 57:15 (translated in the NIV as “high and lofty One”).10 Not only was God seen seated on his throne, but also the place where his throne was located was the “temple” (v. 1), a word (hekhal) that most note is loaned to Hebrew from the Sumerian language of the third millennium BC as E.GAL, meaning “big house.” Originally it referred to either the house