6. While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from inside the temple.
7. He said: ‘Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet. This is where I will live among the Israelites for ever. The people of Israel will never again defile my holy name – neither they nor their kings – by their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings at their death.
8. When they placed their threshold next to my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them, they defiled my holy name by their detestable practices. So I destroyed them in my anger.
9. Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will live among them for ever.
10. ‘Son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their sins. Let them consider its perfection,