Then; when he had in vision brought me hither. Lift up thine eyes; observe diligently and exactly every thing which thou mayst see northward first. The gate of the altar; so called, because Ahaz had removed it from the middle of the court, where by God's command it was placed by Solomon; but now Ahaz setting it near this north gate, it gave name to the gate or possibly because of an altar erected there to some idol by Manasseh. Image of jealousy: see Ezekiel 8:3, &c. In the entry; in the very midst of the court, in the very passage to the temple, to affront the worship of God.
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Ezekiel 8:5
5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.