Category: Exile and Return Notes

Rebellious Israel Renewed Ezekiel prophesies that God will purge Israel of the rebellious people who insist on worshipping false idols and that He will renew the covenant with them. Prophecy against the South God pronounces that he will set fire to the south and consume all the trees in a fire that will not be…

Rebellious Israel Purged The elders come to Ezekiel to inquire of the LORD. But the LORD does not answer them, instead, through Ezekiel recites the history of Israel’s rebellion and how the LORD punished the people for their rebellion but always preserved some in order to keep the covenant He made with them.

Lament over Israel’s Princes This chapter compares Israel to a lioness who raises a cub into a strong lion who is eventually conquered and carried off to Egypt. Then she raises a second cub to a strong lion and this one is conquered and carried off to Babylon where he is out in prison and…

The One Who Sins Will Die Ezekiel explains that God will judge individuals based upon the actions they take. The ones who will live by the law will live and be declared righteous. The ones who dishonor God by breaking his law will not live. He does not want anyone to die but all to…

Two eagles and a vine The word of the LORD came to Ezekiel and gave him an allegory to deliver to Israel. A mighty eagle takes a shoot from the top of a cedar tree and carries it away to a far land and plants it. The prophesy condemns the member of the royal family…

God, through Ezekiel continues the comparison of Jerusalem to an unfaithful woman who despises her husband and chases after strangers. As the chapter concludes, the comparison is to neighboring areas like Samaria to the north and Sodom to the south. God equates them to sisters but calls Jerusalem more depraved. But the promise of a…

Ezekiel continues his prophesy against Jerusalem, now comparing her to a prostitute who will not even take payment from her customers, but instead chases after them and pays them. Her end will be humiliation at the hands of her patrons.

Jerusalem as an adulterous wife Ezekiel chides the people of Jerusalem by comparing them to a mixed race child no one wanted and how God took the child and provided all the needs of the child. Then the child took everything God gave and used it’s beauty to further its lifestyle through prostitution, even as…

Jerusalem as a useless vine Here God compares The wood of a vine to the wood from a tree and compares the people of Jerusalem to the vine that is useless for constructing anything and it’s only use is when it is ultimately burned as fuel. All of this because they have been unfaithful.

Idolaters Condemned Some Elders of Israel come to Ezekiel and sit before him. God shows Ezekiel they have other idols in their hearts and pronounces judgements on them for their idolatry. Jerusalem’s Judgement Inescapable God shows Ezekiel that even righteous men like Daniel, Noah, and Job will be unable to do anything to save their…