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Ezekiel 22
[Bible]Ezekiel 22 is a prophecy that calls Jerusalem "the bloody city," indicts its sins one by one, and announces the coming judgment through the image of dross in a furnace and the corruption of the entire leadership.
Ezekiel 13
[Bible]Ezekiel 13 rebukes the prophets of Israel who prophesy on their own initiative though the LORD has not sent them, together with the women who practice divination. It likens false prophecy that proclaims peace when there is no peace to a wall daubed with untempered mortar.
Ezekiel 20
[Bible]In Ezekiel 20, God answers the elders of Israel who have come to inquire of him by recounting Israel's history of rebellion in Egypt, in the wilderness, and in Canaan, and declares that he will gather his scattered people, judge them, and restore them.
Ezekiel 31
[Bible]Ezekiel 31 is a prophecy addressed to Pharaoh, king of Egypt. It declares that just as Assyria, once as lofty as a cedar of Lebanon, was cut down for its pride and brought down to Sheol (the realm of the dead), so Pharaoh will share the same fate.
Ezekiel 26
[Bible]Ezekiel 26 is a prophecy of judgment against the maritime city of Tyre, which rejoiced at the fall of Jerusalem. It describes the assault of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the destruction of Tyre, and the lament of the princes of the sea.
Ezekiel 24
[Bible]Ezekiel 24 records the word that came to Ezekiel on the day the king of Babylon began the siege of Jerusalem. Through the parable of the rusted pot and the sign of the prophet's refusal to mourn openly at his wife's death, it announces the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.
Ezekiel 35
[Bible]Ezekiel 35 is a prophecy of judgment against Mount Seir, a name for Edom. Because Edom harbored a long-standing hostility toward Israel in its time of calamity, coveted its land, and rejoiced over its desolation, the chapter declares that the land of Edom will likewise be made desolate.
Ezekiel 17
[Bible]Ezekiel 17 uses the parable of two eagles and a vine to rebuke the king of Judah for breaking his covenant with Babylon and relying on Egypt. The chapter closes with God's promise of restoration: He will plant a tender twig from the top of a cedar on a high mountain.
Ezekiel 30
[Bible]Ezekiel 30 contains a prophecy that "the day of the LORD" is coming upon Egypt and its allies (vv. 1–19) and a prophecy that God will break Pharaoh's arms and strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon (vv. 20–26).
Ezekiel 28
[Bible]Ezekiel 28 contains a prophecy rebuking the pride of the king of Tyre, a lament over him, a prophecy of judgment against Sidon, and a promise to regather scattered Israel.
Ezekiel 39
[Bible]Ezekiel 39 is a prophecy that Gog and his army will fall on the mountains of Israel and be buried in the Valley of Hamon-gog. It closes with God's promise to gather scattered Israel again and to pour out His Spirit.
Ezekiel 21
[Bible]Ezekiel 21 contains prophecies that the LORD will draw His sword to judge Jerusalem and the king of Israel, that the king of Babylon will practice divination at a fork in the road and turn toward Jerusalem, and that Ammon will also come under judgment.
Ezekiel 43
[Bible]A chapter in Ezekiel's vision of the new temple. It describes the departed glory of the LORD returning through the east gate and filling the temple, and it gives the measurements of the altar of burnt offering and the ordinances for its seven-day consecration.
Ezekiel 32
[Bible]Ezekiel 32 is the final chapter of the oracles against the nations in the Book of Ezekiel. It contains two laments over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and depicts Pharaoh descending to Sheol to lie with the nations that perished before him.
Ezekiel 25
[Bible]Ezekiel 25 is the first chapter of the oracles against the foreign nations (chapters 25–32). It pronounces judgment on Ammon, Moab, Edom, and Philistia for rejoicing over Judah's downfall or for taking vengeance on Judah.
Ezekiel 36
[Bible]Ezekiel 36 is a prophecy promising restoration to the desolate mountains of Israel and declaring that God will gather His people for the sake of His holy name, cleanse them, and give them a new spirit and a new heart.
Ezekiel 38
[Bible]Ezekiel 38 is a prophecy in which Gog of the land of Magog leads many nations against Israel while it dwells in safety, but God judges him with an earthquake and other calamities and so displays His holiness before the nations.
Ezekiel 42
[Bible]Ezekiel 42 records Ezekiel's vision of the northern and southern chambers of the new temple, where the priests eat the holy offerings and change their garments, and the measuring of the temple's outer wall at five hundred on each side.
Ezekiel 40
[Bible]Ezekiel 40 is the first chapter of the vision of the new temple, which forms the final section of the Book of Ezekiel (chapters 40–48). In a vision Ezekiel is brought to a very high mountain in the land of Israel, where he watches a man whose appearance shines like brass measure the temple's wall, gates, courts, and priests' chambers.
Ezekiel 29
[Bible]Ezekiel 29 opens the book's prophecies against Egypt. It pronounces judgment on Pharaoh, who boasts that the Nile is his own, by likening him to a great crocodile, and it foretells that the land of Egypt will be handed over to Nebuchadnezzar.