Ezekiel
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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consists mainly of three groups of prophecies. After an
account
of his call to the prophetical office (1-3:21),
Ezekiel (1)
utters words of denunciation against the Jews (3:22-
24), warning
them of the certain destruction of Jerusalem, in
opposition to
the words of the false prophets (4:1-3). The
symbolical acts, by
which the extremities t...
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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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II. Significance of Ezekiel in Israel's Religious History.
Under the first head we will consider the formal
characteristics and significance of the book; and the
examination of its contents will form the subject under the
next four divisions.
1. Formal Characteristics of Ezekiel:
It is not correct to regard Ezekiel merely as a writer, as ...
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