And — This, and all the passages to the end of the 16th verse, was done in vision only. Inner gate — To the door of the gate of the inner court. The north — The temple courts had four gates towards the four quarters, and this was the north gate, which opened into the great court where Ahaz had set up his Damascen altar, and where the idols were set up. The image — Baal, which Manasseh had set up, Josiah had destroyed, but succeeding kings had again set it up. Jealousy — Because it was so notorious an affront to God, who had married Israel to himself.
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Ezekiel 8:3
3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.