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Ezekiel 1. New International Version. Ezekiel’s Inaugural Vision. 1 In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. 2 On the fifth of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin— 3 the word of the Lord came to ...
Ezekiel 1. Ezekiel’s Vision by the River Kebar. ( Psalm 137:1–9) 1 In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God. a. 2 On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin— 3 the word of the LORD ...
Ezekiel ( Arabic: حزقيال; "Ḥazqiyāl" [b]) is recognized as a prophet in Islamic tradition. Although not mentioned by name in the Quran, Muslim scholars, both classical [c] and modern [d] have included Ezekiel in lists of the prophets of Islam . The Quran mentions a prophet called Dhū al-Kifl [e] ( ذو الكفل ). Although Dhu al ...
- possibly c. 622 BCE
- possibly c. 570 BCE (aged 51–52), Babylon
What is known of Ezekiel is derived solely from the book that bears his name. He was among the Jews exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in 597 b.c., and there among the exiles he received his call to become a prophet (see 1:1-3 ). He was married (see 24:15-18 ), lived in a house of his own (see 3:24; 8:1) and along with his fellow exiles ...
The Book of Ezekiel. In response to the rebellion of Jehoiakim of Judah in 601 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian ruler, besieged Jerusalem. When Jehoiakim’s successor, Jehoiachin, surrendered in 597, Nebuchadnezzar appointed Zedekiah king and deported to Babylon Jehoiachin and the royal family, along with members of the upper class, including Ezekiel the priest.
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 ...
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Ezekiel. Key Information and Helpful Resources. Ezekiel was a priest who had been living in Jerusalem during the first Babylonian attack on the city ( 2 Kgs. 24:8-17 ). The city itself was spared, but the king of Babylon took a first wave of Israelite prisoners into exile. Ezekiel was among them.
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