translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET study note

text: These engravings were prohibited in the Mosaic law ( Deut 4:16-18 ).


text: Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship ( Exod 24:1, 9 ).


text: The worship of Tammuz included the observation of the annual death and descent into the netherworld of the god Dumuzi. The practice was observed by women in the ancient Near East over a period of centuries.


text: The priests prayed to God between the porch and the altar on fast days ( Joel 2:17 ). This is the location where Zechariah was murdered ( Matt 23:35 ).


text: The temple faced east.