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Book of Ezekiel

The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and one of the major prophetic books in the Christian Bible, where it follows Isaiah and Jeremiah.[1] According to the book itself, it records six visions of the prophet Ezekiel, exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC, although it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the very words of the prophet.[2]

For other uses, see Book of Ezekiel (disambiguation).

The visions and the book are structured around three themes: (1) judgment on Israel (chapters 1–24); (2) judgment on the nations (chapters 25–32); and (3) future blessings for Israel (chapters 33–48).[3] Its themes include the concepts of the presence of God, purity, Israel as a divine community, and individual responsibility to God. Its later influence has included the development of mystical and apocalyptic traditions in Second Temple Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, and Christianity.

Prophecies against Judah and Jerusalem, –24

chapters 1

Prophecies against the foreign nations, –32

chapters 25

Prophecies of hope and salvation, –48.[4]

chapters 33

Ezekiel has the broad threefold structure found in a number of the prophetic books: oracles of woe against the prophet's own people, followed by oracles against Israel's neighbours, ending in prophecies of hope and salvation:

The "throne vision", in which Ezekiel sees God enthroned in the Temple among the Heavenly Host;

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The first "temple vision", in which Ezekiel sees God leave the Temple because of the abominations practiced there (meaning the worship of idols rather than YHWH, the official God of Judah);

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Images of Israel, in which Israel is seen as a harlot bride, among other things;

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The , in which the prophet sees the dead of the house of Israel rise again;[13]

"valley of dry bones"

The destruction of , in which Ezekiel sees Israel's enemies destroyed and a new age of peace established;[14]

Gog and Magog

The final temple vision, in which Ezekiel sees the third temple commonwealth centered on a new temple in Jerusalem, to which God's (Divine Presence) has returned.[15]

Shekinah

The book opens with a vision of YHWH (יהוה‎). The book moves on to anticipate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, explains this as God's punishment, and closes with the promise of a new beginning and a new Temple.[5]


Some of the highlights include:[9]

The Visionary Ezekiel Temple plan drawn by the 19th-century French architect and Bible scholar Charles Chipiez

The Visionary Ezekiel Temple plan drawn by the 19th-century French architect and Bible scholar Charles Chipiez

The Vision of The Valley of The Dry Bones by Gustave Doré, 1866

The Vision of The Valley of The Dry Bones by Gustave Doré, 1866

Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones by Maerten de Vos, c. 1600

Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones by Maerten de Vos, c. 1600

Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones by Quentin Metsys the Younger, c. 1589

Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones by Quentin Metsys the Younger, c. 1589

Amillennialism

Biblical numerology

Jerusalem in Christianity

Land of Israel

Millenarianism

New Jerusalem

Rape in the Hebrew Bible § Ezekiel 16 and 23

Temple in Jerusalem

Third Temple

English Translation of the Greek Septuagint Bible: Ezekiel

Yechezkiel from Chabad.org

BibleGateway

Bible: Ezekiel