Ezekiel
The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,
the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river
Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him....
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Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath
done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I
[am] the Lord GOD....
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According to religious texts, Ezekiel (Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל,
Y'khizqel, IPA: [jəħ.ezˈqel]), "God will strengthen" (from
חזק, khazaq, [kħaˈzaq], literally "to fasten upon",
figuratively "strong", and אל, el, [ʔel], literally
"strength", figuratively "Almighty"), was a priest in the
Bible who prophesied for 22 years sometime in the 6th century
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I. The Prophet and His Book.
1. The Person of Ezekiel:
The name yehezqe'l, signifies "God strengthens." The
Septuagint employed the form Iezekiel, from which the
Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) took its
"Ezechiel" and Luther "Hesekiel." In Ezek 1:3 the prophet is
said to be the son of a certain Buzi, and that he was a
pries...
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(A priest)
-Time of his prophecy
Eze 1:1-3
-Persecution of
Eze 3:25
-Visions of
Of God's glory
Eze 1; 8; 10; 11:22
Of Jews' abominations
Eze 8:5,6
Of their punishment
Eze 9:10
Of the valley of dry bones
Eze 37:1-14
Of a man with measuring line
Eze 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 48
-Of the river
Eze 47:1-14
-Teaches by pantomime
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(the strength of God), one of the four greater prophets, was
the son of a priest named Buzi, and was taken captive in the
captivity of Jehoiachin, eleven years before the destruction
of Jerusalem. He was a member of a community of Jewish
exiles who settled on the banks of the Chebar, a "river' or
stream of Babylonia. He began prophesying B.C. ...
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God will strengthen. (1.) 1 Chr. 24:16, "Jehezekel."
(2.) One of the great prophets, the son of Buzi the
priest
(Ezek. 1:3). He was one of the Jewish exiles who
settled at
Tel-Abib, on the banks of the Chebar, "in the land
of the
Chaldeans." He was probably carried away captive
with Jehoiachin
(1:2; 2 Kings 24:14-16) about B.C. 597. His
p...
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"God will strengthen," Hebrew, Yehezqel. Son of Buzi
(Ezekiel 1:3), a priest. Probably exercised the priestly
office at Jerusalem before his departure in the captivity or
transmigration (galut) of Jehoiachin, which took place 11
years before the city fell (2 Kings 24:15). His priestly
character gave him much weight with his Hebrew fellow
exil...
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