According to the narrative, Ezekiel prophesied the destruction of Judah 's capital city Jerusalem. In 587 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire conquered Jerusalem, destroyed Solomon's Temple, …

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.

Summary: Ezekiel, a prophet during the Babylonian exile, delivers God’s messages of judgment and restoration. He warns Israel of impending destruction due to their idolatry and sin but also …

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 …

15 Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their workings waslike the …

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 …

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] …

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Ezekiel was a priest who served the Jerusalem temple before he was exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE (Ezek 1:1–3). In the Babylonian exile, Ezekiel functioned as a …

Ezekiel, a priest now thirty years old, sits among deported Judeans beside the Chebar Canal in Babylon. It is the fifth day of the fourth month of the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity …