EZEKIEL
God will strengthen. (1.) 1-Chr 24:16, 1-Chr 24: "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) about B.C. 597. His prophetic call came to him "in the fifth year of Jeho......
EZEKIEL, BOOK OF
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), warning them of the certain destruction of Jerusalem, in opposition to the words of the false prophets (4:1). The symbolical acts, by which the extremities to which Jerusalem would be reduced are described in ch. 4,5, show......