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Mar 9, 2022 · Ezekiel was both a priest and a prophet who lived in the 6th century BCE. The prophets of Israel were oracles (a term for a person as well as a place) for ways in which humans communicated with their gods. The oracle was possessed by the deity and served as a vehicle for the words. Sometimes the deity appeared in a vision.
Jul 3, 2016 · God reveals himself to Ezekiel when he was exiled in Babylon. His presence with his people has nothing to do with geographic location. It’s about the condition of their hearts. Ezekiel is faithful, and God recognizes that in him, trusting him to carry out his message to Israel. Through Ezekiel, we learn that the spiritual is just as important ...
Ezekiel, a priest-turned- prophet during the time of the Babylonian takeover and captivity of the land of Judah, wrote this 48-chapter book during the sixth century BC. He was a contemporary of other major prophets, such as Daniel and Jeremiah, and minor prophets, such as Habakkuk and Obadiah. Like Daniel, he was also taken into captivity in ...
Ezekiel 1. New King James Version. Ezekiel’s Vision of God. 1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, thatthe heavens were opened and I saw visions[ a] of God. 2 On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin ...
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, first captured Jerusalem in 597 B.C.E. and carried off King Jehoiachin and the leaders of the people to Babylon (11 Kings 24: 14). Ezekiel was one of those who were led away in the first captivity, and he dates his book from the years after the exile of Jehoiachin. In Babylon Ezekiel lived in the city of Tel ...
May 7, 2021 · The Cultural Context of Ezekiel. Ezekiel lived during one of the most tumultuous times of Israel. The kingdom had split into two and had gone downhill from there. Assyrians had picked off the Northern kingdom, and the Southern kingdom of Judah had its day of reckoning coming. The Babylonian Empire had started to sweep the ancient world and made ...
Aug 29, 2020 · Ezekiel sees the glory Moses and Solomon saw, but Ezekiel doesn’t sees it on Sinai, at Shiloh, or in Jerusalem. When Ezekiel sees the vision, in the fifth year of Jehoiachin’s exile (Ezek. 1:2), the temple is still standing in Jerusalem (cf. Ezek. 33:21–22). Yet the glory isn’t in the temple. It’s with the exiles in Babylon, who ...
