Lexicon :: Strong's H376 - 'îš

That is what their faces were like. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching that of another and two wings covering its body.

Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the Spirit[fn] wanted to go, they went without turning as they moved.

and under the expanse their wings extended one toward another. They each also had two wings covering their bodies.

The survivors among them will escape

and live on the mountains.

Like doves of the valley,

all of them will moan,

each over his own iniquity.

He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us. The LORD has abandoned the land.’ ”

So he brought me to the inner court of the LORD’s house, and there were about twenty-five men at the entrance of the LORD’s temple, between the portico and the altar, with their backs to the LORD’s temple and their faces turned to the east. They were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a war club in his hand. There was another man among them, clothed in linen, carrying writing equipment. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherub where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. He called to the man clothed in linen and carrying writing equipment.

“Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,” the LORD said to him, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable practices committed in it.”

“Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the children and older women, but do not come near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

Then the man clothed in linen and carrying writing equipment reported back, “I have done all that you commanded me.”

Now the cherubim were standing to the south of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

After the LORD commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from inside the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.

Their faces looked like the same faces I had seen by the Chebar Canal. Each creature went straight ahead.

The LORD[fn] said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.

“Son of man, your own relatives, those who have the right to redeem your property,[fn][fn] along with the entire house of Israel ​— ​all of them ​— ​are those to whom the residents of Jerusalem have said, ‘You are far from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’

“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and have put their sinful stumbling blocks in front of themselves. Should I actually let them inquire of me?

“Therefore, speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: When anyone from the house of Israel sets up idols in his heart and puts his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet, I, the LORD, will answer him appropriately.[fn] I will answer him according to his many idols,

“For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside in Israel separates himself from me, setting up idols in his heart and putting his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of me, I, the LORD, will answer him myself.

“I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

“Even if these three men ​— ​Noah, Daniel, and Job ​— ​were in it, they would rescue only themselves by their righteousness.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

“Even if these three men were in it, as I live” ​— ​the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​“they could not rescue their sons or daughters. They alone would be rescued, but the land would be desolate.

“Even if these three men were in it, as I live” ​— ​the declaration of the Lord GOD ​— ​“they could not rescue their sons or daughters, but they alone would be rescued.

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hethite and your father an Amorite.

“He doesn’t oppress anyone but returns his collateral to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

“He doesn’t lend at interest or for profit but keeps his hand from injustice and carries out true justice between men.

“He doesn’t oppress anyone, hold collateral, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

“Therefore, house of Israel, I will judge each one of you according to his ways.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD. “Repent and turn from all your rebellious acts, so they will not become a sinful stumbling block to you.

I also said to them, “Throw away, each of you, the abhorrent things that you prize,[fn] and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.”

“ ‘But they rebelled against me and were unwilling to listen to me. None of them threw away the abhorrent things that they prized,[fn] and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out my wrath on them, exhausting my anger against them within the land of Egypt.

“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, each of you. But afterward you will surely listen to me, and you will no longer defile my holy name with your gifts and idols.

“There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood. People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines;[fn] they commit depraved acts within you.

“One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

“I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.