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WouldWould the aforementioned exegesis of Ezekiel 8 be correct?

----------I just wanted to elaborate on my own subtle & nuanced view of parts of Ezekiel 8------------------------------------------------

Yes, Ezekiel 8 explicitly mentions sinful literal physically tangible idol false god worship.

However, when I read "dig through the aforementioned exegesiswall", & "Go in" in Ezekiel 8:8-9, "committing in the dark" & "each man in the room of his carved images" in Ezekiel 8:12 and "For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’" in  Ezekiel 8:12, it just makes me think of a nuanced & complex general narrative.

Lets think about a hypothetical narrative example of a typical Christian protestant nuclear family in predominantly Christian protestant developed regions of the world (e.g., North America, parts of Western Europe, Australasia, etc. ).

Said Christian protestant nuclear family could be correct?like nominal Christians who attend a Protestant church every Sunday, & seem quite normal & Christian through physical eyes of people around said family.  In other words, in said hypothetical narrative, there is No literal physically tangible idol false god worship.  However, there are definitely sins "committing in the dark" & privately & personally "each man" has "his carved images" "in the room".

To elaborate, the husband of said family could be privately idolizing about family finances, being greedy for money & job promotions at work while he attends & pretends to worship at church.

The wife of the family could be privately idolizing about being married to a neighbor's husband while she attends & pretends to worship at church who seems to be a better husband in her eyes than the husband that she currently has.

The teenage children have their own false idols like thinking about playing sports, playing video games, infatuating about some schoolmate as they attend and pretend to worship at church.

Therefore, some parts of Ezekiel 8 like Ezekiel 8:8-9 & Ezekiel 8:12 refer to / suggest / hint about the aforementioned more subtle & nuanced private & personal false idol worshipping.

Would the aforementioned exegesis of Ezekiel 8 be correct?

Would the aforementioned exegesis of Ezekiel 8 be correct?

----------I just wanted to elaborate on my own subtle & nuanced view of parts of Ezekiel 8------------------------------------------------

Yes, Ezekiel 8 explicitly mentions sinful literal physically tangible idol false god worship.

However, when I read "dig through the wall", & "Go in" in Ezekiel 8:8-9, "committing in the dark" & "each man in the room of his carved images" in Ezekiel 8:12 and "For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’" in  Ezekiel 8:12, it just makes me think of a nuanced & complex general narrative.

Lets think about a hypothetical narrative example of a typical Christian protestant nuclear family in predominantly Christian protestant developed regions of the world (e.g., North America, parts of Western Europe, Australasia, etc. ).

Said Christian protestant nuclear family could be like nominal Christians who attend a Protestant church every Sunday, & seem quite normal & Christian through physical eyes of people around said family.  In other words, in said hypothetical narrative, there is No literal physically tangible idol false god worship.  However, there are definitely sins "committing in the dark" & privately & personally "each man" has "his carved images" "in the room".

To elaborate, the husband of said family could be privately idolizing about family finances, being greedy for money & job promotions at work while he attends & pretends to worship at church.

The wife of the family could be privately idolizing about being married to a neighbor's husband while she attends & pretends to worship at church who seems to be a better husband in her eyes than the husband that she currently has.

The teenage children have their own false idols like thinking about playing sports, playing video games, infatuating about some schoolmate as they attend and pretend to worship at church.

Therefore, some parts of Ezekiel 8 like Ezekiel 8:8-9 & Ezekiel 8:12 refer to / suggest / hint about the aforementioned more subtle & nuanced private & personal false idol worshipping.

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Ezekiel 8"each man in the room of his carved images" shows Israelites metaphorical idolatry being uniquely different with different Israelites

I might just be asking the obvious.

Some parts Ezekiel 8 could certainly be describing how Israel actually fell into outwardly expressive explicit idolatry where they adopted the religious customs of their foreign neighbors by setting up physically tangible idols representative of false gods like Baal, Asherah, etc. as mentioned in Ezekiel 8:5

(Ezekiel 8:5)

Then He said to me, “Son of man, raise your eyes now toward the north.” So I raised my eyes toward the north, and behold, to the north of the altar gate was this idol of jealousy at the entrance.

However, there are other parts of Ezekiel 8 like Ezekiel 8:8-12 which seem to suggest the Israelites personal spiritual, emotional & mental symbolic/metaphorical idolatrous behaviour that is uniquely different among different individual Israelites, & is possibly private to their hearts & minds (e.g., romantic infatuation with some other person, greed for money, career-obsessed workaholism, narcissism, etc. ) And possibly overlappingly includes some sort of outward expressions of idolatry similar to what is described in Ezekiel 8:5

Ezekiel 8:8-12

8 He said to me, “Son of man, now dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and behold, an entrance. 9 And He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here.” 10 So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around. 11 Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising. 12 Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’��

The reason why I interpret Ezekiel 8:8-12 as being a description of the individual Israelites personal & private spiritual, emotional & mental symbolic/metaphorical idolatrous state is because in the Ezekiel 8:8-9 bible verses, Ezekiel is instructed to "dig through the wall", and "Go in" which all suggests delving into the personal & private hearts and minds of the Israelites

Ezekiel 8:8-9

He said to me, “Son of man, now dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and behold, an entrance. 9 And He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here.”

Furthermore, when Ezekiel 8:12 mentions "house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images", it seems to suggest the Israelites personal spiritual, emotional & mental symbolic/metaphorical idolatrous behaviour that is uniquely different among different individual Israelites because it says "each man in the room of his carved images":

Ezekiel 8:12

Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’"

Would the aforementioned exegesis of Ezekiel 8 be correct?