19Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt 24In your marketplace they traded with you fine garments of blue, embroidered work, and multicolored rugs with cords tightly twisted and knotted. 4Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins. 14Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of all the work for the temple and everything to be done in it. 20These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the River Kebar, and I knew that they were cherubim. 14Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? 12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, They are desolate; they are given to us to devour! 16When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side. 16All the people of the land must participate in this contribution for the prince in Israel. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute. 14The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning. 18Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. 48Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD., 15This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility, 31You are My flock, the sheep of My pasture, My people, and I am your God, declares the Lord GOD.. Education: University of Bombay (Lagu prize, 1947), 1941-47, M.A. Checkout Dr. Fruchtenbaum. 3Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand. The ancient heights have become our possession, Submitted by Rebecca Denova, published on 09 March 2022. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession. 7The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. 13Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supplya of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast, Turn from your evil ways! 7I made you thrive like a plant of the field. I, the LORD, have spoken. It will be 25,000 cubits wide,a and the length of a tribal portion from east to west. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. 9For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown. 14This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. 38And I will purge you of those who rebel and transgress against Me. 26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house. 32It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GODlet it be known to you. Nebuchadnezzar was credited with creating the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to remind his wife of her homeland, but archaeologists have found no trace of these legendary gardens. 25I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live. 3As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubitsa and led me through ankle-deep water. He completed and extended fortifications begun by his father, built a great moat and a new outer defense wall, paved the ceremonial Processional Way with limestone, rebuilt and embellished the principal temples, and cut canals. 12This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Cite This Work 5For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel 14You were anointed as a guardian cherub. 16You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. 11The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely. 1And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire. 10When the people enter, the prince shall go in with them, and when they leave, he shall leave. 38They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths. 9My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and speak lying divinations. 5This is what the Lord GOD says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her. For they are saying, The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land., 13Again, He told me, You will see them committing even greater abominations., 14Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.c, 15Son of man, He said to me, do you see this? Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.. 4On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. 20then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I am the LORD your God.. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver. 24you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. 7They will be desolate among desolate lands. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!, 31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. 10They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. Then they will know that I am the LORD.. World History Foundation is a non-profit organization registered in Canada. 7For this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzarb king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops. Fall of Gog and MagogBoston Public Library (CC BY-NC-ND). 15And you will come from your place out of the far northyou and many peoples with you, all riding horsesa mighty horde, a huge army. Each one also had two wings covering its body. 3Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: 4Your borders are in the heart of the seas; Of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah. You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. He was also a prophet, and comissioned to be "a watchman" over the house of Israel (Ezekiel 3:17, 33:7). 7Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, gleaming like polished bronze. From that point 15 years was added to His life making him 54 years when He died. Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Ezekiel turned 30 about five years after the Babylonians exiled King Jehoiachin from the Kingdom of Judah. 25I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me. 5and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. 23I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. and sending their channels to all the trees of the field. 5Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. 18In the wilderness I said to their children: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. The Exact Name, his fifth book of poetry, was published in 1965. 4Manasseh will have one portion bordering the territory of Naphtali from east to west. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and charred it! 5They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts. 21Yes, I will gather you together and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted within the city. The Ezekiels belonged to Mumbai's Marathi-speaking Jewish community known as the Bene Israel. 8If I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you will surely die, but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood. 21The outer sanctuary had a rectangular doorframe, and the doorframe of the sanctuary was similar. 8While they were killing, I was left alone. 17Then they will lament for you, saying. You receive strangers instead of your own husband! If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved his life. 5You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD. Ezekiel also came from a lineage of priests. 32When you say, Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone, what you have in mind will never come to pass. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court, There will no longer be a prince in Egypt. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water. Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD., 8This is what the Lord GOD says: Because Moab and Seirb said, Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations, In this way you will make atonement for the temple. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. 38And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy. She has recently completed a textbook, "The Origins of Christianity and the New Testament" (Wiley-Blackwell). [1] 2Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. Merkabah ("to ride") referred to the throne chariot in Ezekiels vision. Click here to find out more about this unique and fun Bible study tool! So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors. 42There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high.q On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices. 14I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. 3Only the prince himself may sit inside the gateway to eat in the presence of the LORD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations? 9I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me. 17Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 24Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your deedsbecause you have come to remembranceyou shall be taken in hand. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. 5I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammona a resting place for sheep. 4therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. 6But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. 12In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square. He measured the distance from gateway to gateway to be a hundred cubits. 10In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity. [4], He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his collection, "Latter-Day Psalms", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. 9The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. 28Then you will live in the land that I gave your forefathers; you will be My people, and I will be your God. 9The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple Jeremiah and Ezekiel describe Nebuchadnezzar II as Gods instrument against wrongdoers. https://www.worldhistory.org/Ezekiel/. I looked, and I saw a figure like that of a man. This will be the western boundary. 25They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. Some Rights Reserved (2009-2023) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise noted. for My wrath is upon the whole multitude. * Lying on his left side for 390 days for each year of Israels sins and 40 days on his right side for each year of Judahs sins (4:4-8). Then you will know that I am the LORD.. 19And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long. He described visions which God gave . [12] A year later, he presented an art series of ten programmes for Indian television. 42So I will lay to rest My wrath against you, and My jealousy will turn away from you. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them., The Good Shepherd(Psalm 23:16; John 10:121). Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house. 3Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubitsb that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court. 5Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building. 2The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.a 24My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. 16as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. So they began with the elders who were before the temple. Each cherub had two faces: 7Father and mother are treated with contempt. The story of Nebuchadnezzar is the basis of Giuseppe Verdis opera Nabucco, while his supposed madness is the theme of William Blakes picture Nebuchadnezzar.. He states his first encounter with God was "in the thirtieth year." By the 1st century CE, the Jewish sect of the Pharisees had incorporated this passage into their teaching on the resurrection of the dead, as did the emerging sect of Christians. 6I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD. From 1961 to 1972, he headed the English department of Mithibai College, Bombay. If Hezekiah, was 25 years old when He began to reign 726 BC-697 BC, which makes 29 years in His Kingship. 20When the sticks on which you write are in your hand and in full view of the people, 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause . The oracle was possessed by the deity and served as a vehicle for the words. 2Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square,b with 50 cubitsc around it for open land. 12Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord GOD. when I bring about your destruction among the nations, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you. 8As I looked on, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred! Nebuchadnezzars further military activities are known not from extant chronicles but from other sources, particularly the Bible, which records another attack on Jerusalem and a siege of Tyre (lasting 13 years, according to the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus) and hints at an invasion of Egypt. 18then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.e, 3And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide.f The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.g With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising. 41When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. 13And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; you are to offer it every morning. So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gateb I saw this idol of jealousy. 11tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. He was already working as a priest when he was captured and taken to Babylon in 597 B.C. 10The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle. 6On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young, unblemished bull, six lambs, and a ram without blemish. 41So there were four tables inside the gateway and four outsideeight tables in allon which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered. 3He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. By the Middle Ages, these commentaries were part of Kabbalah Mysticism. 8Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast. 42Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land that I swore to give your fathers. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendord in the land of the living. 27And Gad will have one portion bordering the territory of Zebulun from east to west. Ezekiel Eats the Scroll(Revelation 10:111), 1Son of man, He said to me, eat what you find here. 59For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant. 21I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. Ezekiels Vision by the River Kebar(Psalm 137:19), 1In 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. I will deliver My people from your hands. Allegorically, Rome is presented as Babylon. 14Therefore prophesy, son of man, and tell Gog that this is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not take notice of this?e 17You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself. Recalling Ezekiel, God would send out a new spirit and a new covenant, embedded now in the heart. 3Therefore, son of man, pack your bags for exile. Ezekiel is not all gloom and doom. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water. His voice was like the roar of many waters, and the earth shone with His glory. He measured the threshold of the gate to be one rod deep.b In 722 BCE, the Assyrian Empire conquered and destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Each side pillar was decorated with palm trees. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by. 1805 Mary Mary is identified as being a widow of Ezekiel McMichael.I believe Mary is the widow of Ezekiel [1] 13I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. 9This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuarynot even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side. It should be noted that artists have always had difficulty portraying this complicated vision of the throne. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. 60But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 12I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. 36Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt,e so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD. 21For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver. Wouldnt I prefer that he turn from his ways and live? 5so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. 13And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path. 47And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were. In 607/606, as crown prince, Nebuchadnezzar commanded an army with his father in the mountains north of Assyria, subsequently leading independent operations after Nabopolassars return to Babylon. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand. 36as did its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico.
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