OUTLINE OF
EZEKIEL
Eze 36:24 For I will take you
from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will
bring you into your own land. Eze
36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you,
and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your
idols, will I cleanse you. Eze
36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out
of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Eze 36:33 Thus saith the Lord
GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities
I will also cause you
to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
Eze 36:34 And the
desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of
all that passed by. Eze 36:35
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the
garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities
are become
fenced, and
are inhabited.
Part One: The Commission of Ezekiel
(1:1-3:27)
I. Ezekiel Sees the
Glory of God...............................
1:1-28
A. Time of the Vision
1:1-3
Eze 1:1 Now it came to pass in the
thirtieth year, in the fourth
month, in the fifth
day of
the month, as I was
among the captives by the river of Chebar,
that the
heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
B. The Four Living Creatures
1:4-14
Eze 1:5 Also out of the midst thereof
came
the likeness of four living creatures. And this
was
their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
C. The Four Wheels
1:15-21
Eze 1:15 Now as I beheld the living
creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living
creatures, with his four faces.
Eze 1:16 The appearance of the wheels
and their work was
like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness:
and their appearance and their work
was
as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
D. The Firmament
1:22-25
Eze 1:22 And the likeness of the
firmament upon the heads of the living creature
was
as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over
their heads above.
E. The Appearance of a Man
1:26-28
Eze 1:28 As the appearance of the bow
that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so
was
the appearance of the brightness round about. This
was
the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And
when I saw it,
I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
II. Ezekiel Is
Commissioned to the Word of God.............2:1-3:27
A. Ezekiel Is Sent to
Israel................
2:1-3:3
Eze 2:1 And he said unto me, Son of
man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.
Eze 2:3 And he said unto me, Son of
man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious
nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers
have transgressed against me,
even
unto this very day.
B. Ezekiel Is Instructed
About His Ministry..........................
3:4-27
Eze 3:4 And he said unto me, Son of
man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my
words unto them.
Eze 3:27 But when I speak with thee, I
will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that
forbeareth, let him forbear: for they
are
a rebellious house.
Part Two: Judgment on Judah
(4:1-24:27)
I. Four Signs
of Coming Judgment............................
4:1-5:17
A. Sign of the Tile
4:1-3
Eze 4:1 Thou also, son of man,
take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon
it the city, even
Jerusalem:
Eze 4:3 Moreover take thou unto
thee an iron pan, and set it
for
a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face
against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay
siege against it. This
shall be
a sign to the house of Israel.
B. Sign of Ezekiel's Lying on
His Side
4:4-8
Eze 4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left
side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it:
according
to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou
shalt bear their iniquity.
Eze 4:5 For I have laid upon thee
the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the
days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the
iniquity of the house of Israel.
C. Sign of the Denied
Bread
4:9-17
Eze 4:9 Take thou also unto thee
wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and
fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread
thereof, according
to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side,
three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Eze 4:13 And the LORD said, Even
thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread
among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
D. Sign of the Razor and
Hair
5:1-4
Eze 5:1 And thou, son of man,
take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and
cause it
to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee
balances to weigh, and divide the
hair.
Eze 5:4 Then take of them again,
and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in
the fire; for
thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of
Israel.
E. Explanation of the Signs
5:5-17
Eze 5:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
This is
Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and
countries that are
round about her.
Eze 5:11 Wherefore,
as
I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast
defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and
with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish
thee;
neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
II. Two
Messages of Coming Judgment .
. 6:1-7:27
A. Destruction Because of
Idolatry
6:1-14
1.
Destruction of High Places
6:1-7
Eze 6:3 And say, Ye mountains
of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the
Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the
rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I,
even
I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your
high places.
2.
Salvation of the Remnant
6:8-10
Eze 6:8 Yet will I leave a
remnant, that ye may have
some
that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye
shall be scattered through the countries.
3.
Desolation of the Land
6:11-14
Eze 6:13 Then shall ye know
that I am
the LORD, when their slain
men
shall be among their idols round about their altars,
upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains,
and under every green tree, and under every thick oak,
the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their
idols.
B. Description of the
Babylonian
Conquest...................
7:1-27
Eze 7:23 Make a chain: for the land
is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
Eze 7:24 Wherefore I will bring the
worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I
will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their
holy places shall be defiled.
III. Four-part
Vision of Coming Judgment.........
8:1-11:25
A. Vision of the Glory of
God
8:1-4
Eze 8:1 And it came to pass in
the sixth year, in the sixth
month,
in the fifth day
of the month, as
I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me,
that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
Eze 8:4 And, behold, the glory of
the God of Israel
was there, according to the vision
that I saw in the plain.
B. Vision of the Abominations
in the Temple...................
8:5-18
1.
Image of Jealousy
8:5, 6
Eze 8:5 Then said he unto me,
Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the
north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the
north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar
this image of jealousy in the entry.
2.
Paintings on the Wall
8:7-12
Eze 8:10 So I went in and saw;
and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable
beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel,
pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
3.
Weeping for Tammuz
8:13,
14
Eze 8:14 Then he brought me to
the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which
was
toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping
for Tammuz.
4.
Sun Worship
8:15-18
Eze 8:16 And he brought me into
the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the
door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and
the altar, were
about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the
temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and
they worshipped the sun toward the east.
C. Vision of the Slaying in
Jerusalem ....
9:1-11
1.
Call to the Six Men
9:1-3
Eze 9:2 And, behold, six men
came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward
the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand;
and one man among them
was
clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side:
and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
2.
Command to Slay the Wicked
9:4-7
Eze 9:6 Slay utterly old
and
young, both maids, and little children, and women: but
come not near any man upon whom
is
the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at
the ancient men which
were
before the house.
3.
Weeping of Ezekiel
9:8-11
Eze 9:8 And it came to pass,
while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I
fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD!
wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy
pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
D. Departure of the Glory of
God
to the Threshold...................
10:1-8
Eze 10:4 Then the glory of the LORD
went up from the cherub,
and stood
over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled
with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of
the LORD'S glory.
E. Vision of the Wheels and
Cherubim
10:9-22
Eze 10:9 And when I looked, behold
the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub,
and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of
the wheels was
as the colour of a beryl stone.
F. Vision of the Twenty-five
Wicked Rulers...................
11:1-12
Eze 11:1 Moreover the spirit
lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the
LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door
of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah
the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of
the people.
Eze 11:2 Then said he unto me, Son
of man, these are
the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in
this city:
Eze 11:4 Therefore prophesy against
them, prophesy, O son of man.
G. Promise of the Restoration
of the Remnant...................
11:13-21
Eze 11:14 Again the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 11:19 And I will give them one
heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will
take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them
an heart of flesh:
Eze 11:20 That they may walk in my
statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze 11:21 But
as for them
whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable
things and their abominations, I will recompense their way
upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
H. Departure of the Glory of God
from the Mount of Olives...................
11:22-25
Eze 11:23 And the glory of the LORD
went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the
mountain which is
on the east side of the city.
IV. Signs,
Parables, and Messages of
Judgment.........................
12:1-24:27
A. Sign of Stuff (Baggage)
for Removing
12:1-16
Eze 12:2 Son of man, thou dwellest
in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see,
and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they
are
a rebellious house.
Eze 12:3 Therefore, thou son of
man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in
their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another
place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though
they be
a rebellious house.
B. Sign of Trembling
12:17-28
Eze 12:17 Moreover the word of the
LORD came to me, saying,
Eze 12:18 Son of man, eat thy bread
with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with
carefulness;
C. Message Against the
False Prophets..
13:1-23
1.
Judgment upon False Prophets . . .
13:1-16
Eze 13:1 And the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 13:2 Son of man, prophesy
against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say
thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts,
Hear ye the word of the LORD;
Eze 13:3 Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their
own spirit, and have seen nothing!
2.
Judgment upon False
Prophetesses...............
13:17-23
Eze 13:17 Likewise, thou son of
man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people,
which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou
against them,
D. Message Against the
Elders
14:1-23
1.
Idolatry of the Elders
14:1-11
Eze 14:1 Then came certain
of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
Eze 14:2 And the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 14:3 Son of man, these men
have set up their idols in their heart, and put the
stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face:
should I be enquired of at all by them?
Eze 14:6 Therefore say unto the
house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and
turn yourselves
from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your
abominations.
2.
Jerusalem to Be Destroyed
14:12-23
Eze 14:12 The word of the LORD
came again to me, saying,
Eze 14:13 Son of man, when the
land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then
will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the
staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon
it, and will cut off man and beast from it:
Eze 14:22 Yet, behold, therein
shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth,
both
sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto
you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye
shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have
brought upon Jerusalem,
even
concerning all that I have brought upon it.
E. Parable of the Vine
Tree
15:1-8
Eze 15:6 Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest,
which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
F. Parable of Israel's
Marriage
16:1-63
1.
God Has Mercy on Israel
16:1-14
Eze 16:1 Again the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 16:2 Son of man, cause
Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Eze 16:3 And say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity
is
of the land of Canaan; thy father
was
an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Eze 16:14 And thy renown went
forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it
was
perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon
thee, saith the Lord GOD.
2.
Israel Rejects God
16:15-34
Eze 16:15 But thou didst trust
in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of
thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every
one that passed by; his it was.
Eze 16:30 How weak is thine
heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these
things,
the work of an imperious whorish woman;
Eze 16:32
But as
a wife that committeth adultery,
which
taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Eze 16:33 They give gifts to
all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers,
and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every
side for thy whoredom.
3.
God Punishes Israel
16:35-59
Eze 16:35 Wherefore, O harlot,
hear the word of the LORD:
Eze 16:37 Behold, therefore I
will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken
pleasure, and all
them that thou hast loved,
with all them
that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round
about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto
them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
4.
God Remembers His Covenant ..
16:60-63
Eze 16:60 Nevertheless I will
remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth,
and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
G. Parable of the Two
Eagles
17:1-24
Eze 17:2 Son of man, put forth a
riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
Eze 17:12 Say now to the rebellious
house, Know ye not what these
things mean?
tell them,
Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath
taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led
them with him to Babylon;
Eze 17:19 Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; As
I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my
covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon
his own head.
Eze 17:24 And all the trees of the
field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high
tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green
tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD
have spoken and have done
it.
H. Message of Personal Judgment
for Personal Sin..........................
18:1-32
Eze 18:1 The word of the LORD
came unto me again, saying,
Eze 18:4 Behold, all souls are
mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son
is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Eze 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it
shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the
father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the
son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him,
and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Eze 18:30 Therefore I will judge
you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,
saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn
yourselves
from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your
ruin.
I. Lament for the Princes of
Israel...............................
19:1-9
Eze 19:1 Moreover take thou up
a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Eze 19:2 And say, What
is
thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she
nourished her whelps among young lions.
Eze 19:8 Then the nations set
against him on every side from the provinces, and spread
their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
J. Parable of the Withered
Vine...............................
19:10-14
Eze 19:10 Thy mother
is
like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was
fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Eze 19:13 And now she
is
planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
K. Message of Judgment
on Jerusalem..........................
20:1-24:27
1. Review of God's Past
Dealings with
Israel.....................
20:1-32
a. In Egypt
20:1-9
Eze 20:1 And it came to
pass in the seventh year, in the fifth
month,
the tenth
day of the month,
that
certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of
the LORD, and sat before me.
Eze 20:2 Then came the word
of the LORD unto me, saying,
Eze 20:5 And say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose
Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the
house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in
the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto
them, saying, I
am
the LORD your God;
Eze 20:8 But they rebelled
against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did
not every man cast away the abominations of their
eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt:
then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to
accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the
land of Egypt.
Eze 20:9 But I wrought for
my name's sake, that it should not be polluted
before the heathen, among whom they
were,
in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in
bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
b. In the
Wilderness
20:10-26
Eze 20:10 Wherefore I
caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,
and brought them into the wilderness.
Eze 20:11 And I gave them
my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which
if
a man do, he shall even live in them.
Eze 20:13 But the house of
Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they
walked not in my statutes, and they despised my
judgments, which
if
a man do, he shall even live in them; and my
sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would
pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to
consume them.
Eze 20:17 Nevertheless mine
eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I
make an end of them in the wilderness.
c. In Canaan
20:27,
28
Eze 20:27 Therefore, son of
man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your
fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have
committed a trespass against me.
Eze 20:28
For
when I had brought them into the land,
for
the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them,
then they saw every high hill, and all the thick
trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and
there they presented the provocation of their
offering: there also they made their sweet savour,
and poured out there their drink offerings.
d. In Ezekiel's Time
20:29-32
Eze 20:31 For when ye offer
your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through
the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols,
even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by
you, O house of Israel?
As
I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired
of by you.
2. Message of God's
Future Restoration of Israel....
20:33-44
Eze 20:38 And I will purge out
from among you the rebels, and them that transgress
against me: I will bring them forth out of the country
where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the
land of Israel: and ye shall know that I
am
the LORD.
Eze 20:41 I will accept you
with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the
people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye
have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you
before the heathen.
3. Signs of Judgment on
Jerusalem..........................
20:45-21:32
a. Sign of the Forest
Fire
20:45-49
Eze 20:49 Then said I, Ah
Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak
parables?
b. Sign of the Drawn
Sword
21:1-17
Eze 21:3 And say to the
land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I
am
against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of
his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous
and the wicked.
c. Sign of the Double
Stroke of the
Sword......................
21:18-32
Eze 21:19 Also, thou son of
man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the
king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come
forth out of one land: and choose thou a place,
choose it
at the head of the way to the city.
Eze 21:20 Appoint a way,
that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites,
and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
4. Message of Judgment
on Jerusalem..........................
22:1-31
Eze 22:1 Moreover the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 22:4 Thou art become guilty
in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled
thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou
hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come
even
unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach
unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
5. Parables of Judgment
on Jerusalem..........................
23:1-24:14
a. Parable of
Two Sisters
23:1-49
Eze 23:1 The word of
the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Eze 23:2 Son of man, there
were two women, the daughters of one mother:
Eze 23:3 And they committed
whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in
their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and
there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
Eze 23:4 And the names of
them were
Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they
were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus
were
their names; Samaria
is
Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
b. Parable of the
Boiling Pot
24:1-14
Eze 24:1 Again in the
ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth
day
of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me,
saying,
Eze 24:2 Son of man, write
thee the name of the day,
even
of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself
against Jerusalem this same day.
Eze 24:3 And utter a
parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set
it
on, and also pour water into it:
Eze 24:6 Wherefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the
pot whose scum
is
therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring
it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
6. Sign Through the Death
of Ezekiel's Wife ..
. .
24:15-27
Eze 24:15 Also the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 24:16 Son of man, behold, I
take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a
stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither
shall thy tears run down.
Eze 24:18 So I spake unto the
people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I
did in the morning as I was commanded.
Eze 24:19 And the people said
unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these
things are
to us, that thou doest
so?
Eze 24:20 Then I answered them,
The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 24:22 And ye shall do as I
have done: ye shall not cover
your
lips, nor eat the bread of men.
I. Judgment on
Ammon............................
25:1-7
Eze 25:1 The word of the LORD came
again unto me, saying,
Eze 25:2 Son of man, set thy face
against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
II. Judgment
on Moab.............................
25:8-11
Eze 25:8 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah
is
like unto all the heathen;
Eze 25:9 Therefore, behold, I will open
the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities
which are
on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth,
Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
III.
Judgment on Edom...............................
25:12-14
Eze 25:12 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by
taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged
himself upon them;
Eze 25:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut
off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from
Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.
IV. Judgment
on Philistia..............................
25:15-17
Eze 25:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken
vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy
it
for the old hatred;
Eze 25:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines,
and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of
the sea coast.
V. Judgment on
Tyrus.............................
26:1-28:19
A. Destruction of Tyrus
26:1-21
Eze 26:1 And it came to pass in
the eleventh year, in the first
day
of the month, that
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 26:2 Son of man, because that
Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken
that was
the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be
replenished, now
she is laid waste:
Eze 26:3 Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I
am against thee, O Tyrus, and
will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea
causeth his waves to come up.
Eze 26:4 And they shall destroy the
walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also
scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a
rock.
B. Lament over Tyrus
27:1-36
Eze 27:1 The word of the LORD
came again unto me, saying,
Eze 27:2 Now, thou son of man, take
up a lamentation for Tyrus;
Eze 27:3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou
that art situate at the entry of the sea,
which art
a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I
am
of perfect beauty.
Eze 27:34 In the time
when
thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters
thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee
shall fall.
Eze 27:36 The merchants among the
people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never
shalt be
any more.
C. Fall of the Prince of
Tyrus
28:1-19
Eze 28:1 The word of the LORD
came again unto me, saying,
Eze 28:2 Son of man, say unto the
prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine
heart is
lifted up, and thou hast said, I
am
a God, I sit in
the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou
art
a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart
of God:
Eze 28:6 Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of
God;
Eze 28:7 Behold, therefore I will
bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and
they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy
wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
VI. Judgment on Zidon
28:20-26
Eze 28:20 Again the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying,
Eze 28:21 Son of man, set thy face
against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
Eze 28:23 For I will send into her
pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be
judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side;
and they shall know that I
am
the LORD.
Eze 28:24 And there shall be no more a
pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor
any
grieving thorn of all
that are round about them, that
despised them; and they shall know that I
am
the Lord GOD.
VII.
Judgment on Egypt
29:1-32:32
A. Egypt to Be Desolate
29:1-16
Eze 29:1 In the tenth year, in
the tenth month,
in the twelfth day
of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 29:2 Son of man, set thy face
against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and
against all Egypt:
Eze 29:6 And all the inhabitants of
Egypt shall know that I
am
the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the
house of Israel.
Eze 29:9 And the land of Egypt
shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I
am
the LORD: because he hath said, The river
is
mine, and I have made
it.
B. Egypt to Be Taken by
Babylon
29:17-21
Eze 29:17 And it came to pass in
the seven and twentieth year, in the first
month,
in the first day
of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 29:19 Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her
multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it
shall be the wages for his army.
C. Egypt to Be Destroyed
30:1-26
Eze 30:1 The word of the LORD
came again unto me, saying,
Eze 30:2 Son of man, prophesy and
say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
Eze 30:26 And I will scatter the
Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the
countries; and they shall know that I
am
the LORD.
D. Egypt Is Cut Down Like
Assyria
31:1-18
Eze 31:1 And it came to pass in
the eleventh year, in the third
month,
in the first day
of the month, that
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 31:2 Son of man, speak unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou
like in thy greatness?
Eze 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian
was
a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing
shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the
thick boughs.
Eze 31:18 To whom art thou thus
like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet
shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the
nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of
the uncircumcised with
them that be
slain by the sword. This
is
Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
E. Egypt Is Lamented
32:1-16
Eze 32:1 And it came to pass in
the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first
day
of the month, that
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 32:2 Son of man, take up a
lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him,
Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou
art
as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy
rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and
fouledst their rivers.
Eze 32:11 For thus saith the Lord
GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Eze 32:16 This
is
the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the
daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament
for her, even
for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
F. Egypt in Sheol
32:17-32
Eze 32:17 It came to pass also in
the twelfth year, in the fifteenth
day
of the month, that
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 32:18 Son of man, wail for the
multitude of Egypt, and cast them down,
even
her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the
nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the
pit.
I. The Return of
Israel to the Land. . .
33:1-39:29
A. The Appointment of Ezekiel
as Watchman.....................
33:1-33
Eze 33:1 Again the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying,
Eze 33:7 So thou, O son of man, I have
set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou
shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
Eze 33:32 And, lo, thou
art
unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant
voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy
words, but they do them not.
Eze 33:33 And when this cometh to pass,
(lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath
been among them.
B. The Message to the
Shepherds
34:1-31
1. The
False Shepherds
34:1-10
Eze 34:1 And the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 34:2 Son of man, prophesy
against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto
them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe
be
to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should
not the shepherds feed the flocks?
Eze 34:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I am
against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their
hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock;
neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I
will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be
meat for them.
2. The True
Shepherd
34:11-31
Eze 34:11 For thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I,
even I, will both search my sheep,
and seek them out.
Eze 34:12 As a shepherd seeketh out
his flock in the day that he is among his sheep
that are
scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver
them out of all places where they have been scattered in the
cloudy and dark day.
Eze 34:23 And I will set up one
shepherd over them, and he shall feed them,
even
my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their
shepherd.
C. The Judgment of Edom
35:1-15
Eze 35:1 Moreover the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 35:2 Son of man, set thy face
against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Eze 35:15 As thou didst rejoice at the
inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so
will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and
all Idumea, even
all of it: and they shall know that I
am
the LORD.
D. The Prophecies Concerning
Israel.....................
36:1-37:28
1. Judgment
on the Nations
36:1-7
Eze 36:1 Also, thou son of man,
prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains
of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
Eze 36:7 Therefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen
that are
about you, they shall bear their shame.
2. Israel
Returns to the Lord
36:8-38
Eze 36:8 But ye, O mountains of
Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your
fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
Eze 36:36 Then the heathen that are
left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the
ruined places, and
plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken
it,
and I will do it.
Eze 36:37 Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I will yet for
this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do
it
for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Eze 36:38 As the holy flock, as the
flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste
cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know
that I am
the LORD.
3. Israel
Is Reborn
37:1-28
a. Vision of
Dry Bones
37:1-14
Eze 37:1 The hand of the
LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of
the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley
which was
full of bones,
Eze 37:11 Then he said unto me,
Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel:
behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is
lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Eze 37:14 And shall put my
spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you
in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD
have spoken it,
and performed
it, saith the LORD.
b. Sign of the Two Sticks
37:15-28
Eze 37:15 The word of the LORD
came again unto me, saying,
Eze 37:16 Moreover, thou son of
man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah,
and for the children of Israel his companions: then take
another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick
of Ephraim, and
for all the house of Israel
his companions:
Eze 37:17 And join them one to
another into one stick; and they shall become one in
thine hand.
Eze 37:22 And I will make them
one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and
one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no
more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two
kingdoms any more at all:
Eze 37:24 And David my servant
shall be
king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd:
they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my
statutes, and do them.
Eze 37:28 And the heathen shall
know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my
sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
E. Prophecies Concerning Gog
and Magog.....................
38:1-39:29
1.
Attack by Gog
38:1-16
Eze 38:1 And the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 38:2 Son of man, set thy face
against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech
and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
Eze 38:14 Therefore, son of man,
prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that
day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not
know it?
Eze 38:15 And thou shalt come from
thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with
thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a
mighty army:
Eze 38:16 And thou shalt come up
against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land;
it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee
against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall
be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
2.
Judgment of God
38:17-39:29
Eze 39:1 Therefore, thou son of
man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, I am
against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
Eze 39:2 And I will turn thee back,
and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to
come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the
mountains of Israel:
Eze 39:6 And I will send a fire on
Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles:
and they shall know that I
am
the LORD.
Eze 39:7 So will I make my holy
name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not
let them
pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know
that I am
the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
II. The
Restoration of Israel in the
Kingdom..........................
40:1-48:35
A. The New
Temple..........................
40:1-43:27
1.
Vision of the Man with the Measuring
Rod......................
40:1-4
Eze 40:1 In the five and
twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the
year, in the tenth
day of the month, in the
fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the
selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought
me thither.
Eze 40:3 And he brought me thither,
and, behold, there
was a man, whose appearance
was
like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his
hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
Eze 40:4 And the man said unto me,
Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine
ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee;
for to the intent that I might shew
them
unto thee art
thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the
house of Israel.
2.
The Outer Court
40:5-27
Eze 40:17 Then brought he me into
the outward court, and, lo,
there were
chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about:
thirty chambers
were upon the pavement.
3.
The Inner Court
40:28-47
Eze 40:28 And he brought me to the
inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south
gate according to these measures;
4.
The Temple Porch
40:48,
49
Eze 40:48 And he brought me to the
porch of the house, and measured
each
post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits
on that side: and the breadth of the gate
was
three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
Eze 40:49 The length of the porch
was
twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and
he brought me
by the steps whereby they went up to it: and
there were
pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that
side.
5.
The Temple Itself
41:1-26
Eze 41:1 Afterward he brought
me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad
on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side,
which was
the breadth of the tabernacle.
6.
The Chamber in the Outer Court
42:1-14
Eze 42:1 Then he brought me
forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he
brought me into the chamber that
was
over against the separate place, and which
was
before the building toward the north.
7.
The Place of Separation
42:15-20
Eze 42:15 Now when he had made an
end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward
the gate whose prospect
is
toward the east, and measured it round about.
Eze 42:20 He measured it by the
four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred
reeds
long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between
the sanctuary and the profane place.
8.
The Return of the Glory of God to the
Temple.....................
43:1-12
Eze 43:1 Afterward he brought
me to the gate,
even the gate that looketh toward
the east:
Eze 43:2 And, behold, the glory of
the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his
voice was
like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his
glory.
9.
The Altar of Burnt Offerings
43:13-27
Eze 43:13 And these
are
the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit
is a
cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom
shall be
a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the
edge thereof round about
shall be a span: and this
shall be
the higher place of the altar.
B. The New Worship
44:1-46:24
1.
Duties of Temple Priests
44:1-31
Eze 44:15 But the priests the
Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my
sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me,
they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they
shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the
blood, saith the Lord GOD:
Eze 44:23 And they shall teach my
people the
difference between the holy and
profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and
the clean.
Eze 44:24 And in controversy they
shall stand in judgment;
and
they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they
shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies;
and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
2.
Land of the Temple Priests
45:1-8
Eze 45:1 Moreover, when ye
shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer
an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the
length shall be
the length of five and twenty thousand
reeds,
and the breadth
shall be ten thousand. This
shall be
holy in all the borders thereof round about.
Eze 45:4 The holy
portion
of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the
sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD:
and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place
for the sanctuary.
3.
Offerings of the Temple
Priests.....................
45:9-46:24
Eze 45:17 And it shall be the
prince's part to
give burnt offerings, and meat
offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the
new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the
house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the
meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace
offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
C. The New Land
47:1-48:35
1.
River from the Temple
47:1-12
Eze 46:1 Thus saith the Lord
GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the
east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath
it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall
be opened.
Eze 46:9 But when the people of the
land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he
that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship
shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that
entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the
way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the
gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
2.
Boundaries of the Land
47:13-23
Eze 46:13 Thou shalt daily prepare
a burnt offering unto the LORD
of
a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare
it every morning.
Eze 46:22 In the four corners of
the court there
were courts joined of forty
cubits
long and thirty broad: these four corners
were
of one measure.
3.
Divisions of the Land
48:1-29
Eze 48:29 This
is
the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of
Israel for inheritance, and these
are
their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
4.
Gates of the City
48:30-34
Eze 48:31 And the gates of the city
shall be
after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates
northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate
of Levi.
5.
Name of the City
48:35
Eze 48:35
It was
round about eighteen thousand
measures:
and the name of the city from
that
day shall be,
The LORD is
there.
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