 But one thing he never took away from them. He never took away the word of God. But the word came to people differently while they were in Babylon. No longer was the word of God proclaimed from the temple in Jerusalem. Now we read in Ezekiel 8 and Ezekiel 14 that the elders of Israel were meeting in Ezekiel's house. And it's there that the word of God came and spoke to God's people.