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Then Jehovah shows Ezekiel some woman at the north gate of the temple.  The[y are sitting there worshiping the false god Tam'muz.  And look at those men at the entrance of Jehovah's temple! There are about 25 of them. Ezekiel sees them.  They are bowing to the east and worshiping the sun!

 'These people have no respect for me,'Jehovah says. 'They not only do bad things, but come right out to my temple and do them!   So Jehovah promises:  'They will feel the force of my anger. And I will not be sorry for them when they are destroyed.' 

It is only about three years after Jehovah shows Ezekiel these things that the Israelites rebel against King Neb-u-chad-nez'zar.  So he goes  to fight against them. After a year and a half the Babylonians break through the walls of Jerusalem and burn the city to the ground. Most of the people are killed or taken away as prisoners to Babylon.

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