Major prophets
The book of Ezekiel
Ezekiel’s visions to the exiles: God’s glory leaves the temple, and a new heart, a new temple, and a new life come.
Ezekiel was taken to Babylon with Jehoiachin in 599 BC and was called to prophesy in the fifth year of the exile (Ezekiel 1:1–3). His book is carefully dated by that exile, and ends with a vision of a new temple and the LORD’s return to it.
Written at: by the Chebar canal, in Babylonia (Ezekiel 1:1–3)
Kinds of writing
- Prophecy 100%
Key verses
The appearance of Yahweh's glory. As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
Ezekiel 1:28 (World English Bible)
I have no pleasure in anyone's death. For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
Ezekiel 18:32 (World English Bible)
A new heart and a new spirit. I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26 (World English Bible)
Breath enters the dry bones. The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.”
Ezekiel 37:5 (World English Bible)
The city's name: Yahweh is there. “It shall be eighteen thousand reeds in circumference; and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’”
Ezekiel 48:35 (World English Bible)
People
EzekielJehoiachinNebuchadnezzarNoahDanielJob
Places
ChebarBabylonJerusalemTyreEgyptSalt Sea
On the timeline
Jehoiachin and 10,000 exiled to BabylonEzekiel's vision by the Chebar RiverBabylon besieges JerusalemNews of Jerusalem's fall reaches EzekielNebuchadnezzar besieges TyreEzekiel's valley of dry bonesEzekiel's vision of a new temple
The New Testament quotes or alludes to Ezekiel 5 times (counted in the site’s Old in the New).
Dating notes
The span is an estimate; Scripture doesn’t say when the book was written.