Ezekiel Devotionals
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- Ezekiel 1: Glory Among the Exiles
Ezekiel is not in Jerusalem when the heavens open. He is a priest among the exiles by the River Kebar, far from the temple (1:1-3). There the hand of the LORD comes upon him. A…
- Ezekiel 2: Faithful Whether or Not Heard
Ezekiel is told to stand, and the Spirit himself sets him on his feet (2:1-2). Then God tells him the truth about his assignment. The people are rebellious and stubborn, and their…
- Ezekiel 3: Warnings Sent in Love
Ezekiel eats the scroll God hands him, and its words of mourning taste sweet in his mouth (2:10; 3:3). He sits among the exiles at Tel-abib for seven days, overwhelmed (3:15).…
- Ezekiel 4: Carrying the Guilt of Others
Ezekiel's ministry begins with silent theater. He sketches Jerusalem on a brick, builds a model siege around it, and sets up an iron plate between himself and the city (4:1-3).…
- Ezekiel 5: Privilege That Became a Warning
Ezekiel shaves his head and beard with a sword, weighs the hair, and divides it into thirds: burned, struck with the sword, and scattered to the wind (5:1-2). A few strands are…
- Ezekiel 6: Grieved by Wandering Hearts
Ezekiel prophesies against the mountains of Israel, where the people built their shrines (6:2-3). Altars will be broken, idols smashed, and the dead will lie scattered before the…
- Ezekiel 7: When Silver Cannot Save
Chapter 7 sounds like an alarm. The end has arrived, the day is close, and God will judge the land according to its ways (7:2-9). Everything the people relied on gives way. The…
- Ezekiel 8: The Room Behind the Wall
Sitting in his house with the elders of Judah, Ezekiel is taken by the hair and carried in visions of God to the temple in Jerusalem (8:1-3). An idol stands at the north gate…
- Ezekiel 9: Marked Among the Mourners
Six men with weapons come to the temple, and with them a man dressed in linen carrying a writing kit (9:2). Before anyone is struck, God sends the man in linen through Jerusalem…
- Ezekiel 10: Glory at the Threshold
Ezekiel sees again what he saw by the River Kebar, and now he recognizes the living creatures as cherubim (10:15, 20). The man in linen takes fiery coals from beside the cherubim…
- Ezekiel 11: Stone Hearts Made Flesh
Twenty-five leaders boast that Jerusalem is a cooking pot and they are the meat, safe inside (11:1-3). God answers that he knows every thought in their minds and will judge them…
- Ezekiel 12: Patience Mistaken for Absence
Ezekiel acts out exile in plain view. He packs a bag by day, digs through a wall in the evening, and carries his things out at dusk with his face covered (12:3-7). Jerusalem's…
- Ezekiel 13: Comfort That Was Not True
God turns Ezekiel against the prophets who invent their own messages and announce them as the word of the LORD (13:2-7). They promised peace while disaster was on its way, like…
- Ezekiel 14: Righteousness No One Can Lend
Elders of Israel come and sit before Ezekiel, but God sees what they carry inside: idols set up in their hearts (14:1-3). God's purpose in confronting them is not to drive them…
- Ezekiel 15: A Branch Apart from the Vine
What good is the wood of a vine? It cannot be used for building or even carved into a peg to hang a pot on (15:2-3). Its only use is fuel, and once the fire has charred it, it is…
- Ezekiel 16: Covenant Love Outlasts Betrayal
Chapter 16 uses deliberately shocking imagery. God tells Jerusalem's story as a newborn girl abandoned in a field, unwanted and unwashed, until he passes by and commands her to…
- Ezekiel 17: A Tender Sprig Planted High
Ezekiel tells a riddle about two great eagles, a cedar stripped of its top, and a low vine that bends its roots toward the second eagle (17:3-8). God explains it. The king of…
- Ezekiel 18: He Would Rather You Live
The people had a proverb ready to explain their suffering: they were paying for their fathers' sins, and nothing could be done about it (18:2). God forbids it. Every life belongs…
- Ezekiel 19: A Funeral Song for Kings
Ezekiel takes up a funeral song for the princes of Israel (19:1). Their mother is a lioness who raises cubs into young lions. One learns to tear prey, devours people, and is led…
- Ezekiel 20: Mercy Rooted in His Name
When elders come to inquire of the LORD, he refuses to be consulted and instead tells Israel's story honestly (20:1-4). In Egypt they clung to idols. In the wilderness they…
- Ezekiel 21: A Crown Kept for Its Owner
God's sword is drawn, sharpened, and polished, and it will not go back into its sheath (21:3-5, 9-11). Ezekiel must groan before the people with a broken heart, and tell them why…
- Ezekiel 22: Where Forgetting God Leads
God calls Jerusalem the city of bloodshed and lists her sins in a long, painful catalog (22:2-12). Princes shed blood. Parents are treated with contempt, foreigners exploited,…
- Ezekiel 23: Learning from a Sister's Fall
Chapter 23 tells of two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, who stand for Samaria and Jerusalem (23:4). Like chapter 16, it uses deliberately shocking imagery of unfaithfulness, here…
- Ezekiel 24: A Grief Held in Silence
The siege of Jerusalem begins, and God has Ezekiel record the date (24:1-2). The city is a pot crusted with rust that even fire cannot remove. God says he tried to cleanse her,…
- Ezekiel 25: No Joy in Another's Ruin
Jerusalem has fallen, and the neighbors are watching. Ammon cheers when God's sanctuary is profaned and the people are carried into exile (25:3), clapping and stamping with…
- Ezekiel 26: Plans Held in His Hand
Tyre hears that Jerusalem has fallen and starts calculating. The gate that once stood in the way of trade has been broken open, and Tyre expects to be filled from the ruins…
- Ezekiel 27: Everything Aboard Goes Down
God tells Ezekiel to sing a funeral song for a city that is still standing. Tyre has boasted that her beauty is flawless (27:3). She is pictured as a magnificent ship, with…
- Ezekiel 28: Only a Man, Not a God
The ruler of Tyre has grown rich through wisdom and trade, and his proud heart has come to think of itself as divine (28:2-5). God's reply is blunt. When foreign swords come…
- Ezekiel 29: A Staff That Splinters
Pharaoh is pictured as a great monster lying in the streams of the Nile, claiming the river as his own creation (29:3). God promises to put hooks in his jaws and drag him out onto…
- Ezekiel 30: Who Holds the Sword
The Day of the LORD is near, Ezekiel announces, a day of clouds and doom for the nations (30:3). Egypt's allies will fall with her, and the idols of Memphis will be destroyed…
- Ezekiel 31: Height That Was a Gift
God sends Pharaoh a lesson from another empire. Look at Assyria, he says, pictured as a cedar of Lebanon with its top among the clouds (31:3). Deep springs watered it, birds…
- Ezekiel 32: Where the Terror Ends
One more lament is raised, this time over Pharaoh. The song compares him to a lion among the nations and a monster thrashing in the rivers, but God catches him in his net and…
- Ezekiel 33: More Than a Lovely Song
God renews Ezekiel's call as a watchman (33:7), and he answers people crushed by guilt by swearing on his own life that he wants the wicked to turn and live (33:10-11). Then the…
- Ezekiel 34: He Searches for His Sheep
God's charge against Israel's leaders is simple. Shepherds are supposed to feed the flock, and these fed only themselves (34:2-3). They took the wool and the meat, did nothing for…
- Ezekiel 35: An Old Hatred Answered
Edom was already named among Judah's neighbors (25:12-14), but God returns to Mount Seir for a whole chapter, and the charge goes deeper. Edom nursed an ancient hatred and handed…
- Ezekiel 36: Moved to Walk by His Spirit
God first speaks to the land. The mountains of Israel have been mocked, but he is on their side, and they will be farmed and filled with people again (36:8-11). Then he explains…
- Ezekiel 37: When Hope Has Dried Up
By his Spirit, the LORD sets Ezekiel down in a valley full of bones, very dry (37:1-2). God asks whether they can live, and Ezekiel gives the only honest answer: only God knows…
- Ezekiel 38: Safe Without Walls
Gog of the land of Magog comes at the head of a vast army, advancing like a storm cloud over the land (38:2-9). This happens after God's people have returned home and live safely…
- Ezekiel 39: No Longer Hiding His Face
The battle with Gog ends almost before it starts. God strikes the bow from his hand, and he falls on the mountains of Israel (39:3-4). For seven years the people burn the…
- Ezekiel 40: A Future Drawn to Scale
Fourteen years after Jerusalem fell, Ezekiel is carried in visions of God to a very high mountain in the land of Israel (40:1-2). A man who looks like bronze meets him with a…
- Ezekiel 41: A Table Before the LORD
The guide now leads Ezekiel into the temple itself. He measures the outer sanctuary, then goes on into the inner room and announces that this is the Most Holy Place (41:1-4). The…
- Ezekiel 42: A Wall Around Holiness
The guide explains even the side rooms with care. North and south of the temple are holy chambers where the priests eat the most holy offerings (42:13). Before leaving the holy…
- Ezekiel 43: The Glory Comes Home
Years earlier, Ezekiel watched the glory of the LORD leave the temple and pause at its east gate (10:18-19). Now, standing at the gate facing east, he sees the glory coming back…
- Ezekiel 44: When God Is the Inheritance
The outer east gate is shut, and it must stay shut, because the LORD himself has entered through it (44:1-2). Then God sets out who may come near. Levites who wandered after idols…
- Ezekiel 45: Honest Scales in Holy Places
The vision now turns to the land. Before the tribes receive their shares, a holy portion is set apart for the LORD, with the sanctuary at its heart and space for priests, Levites,…
- Ezekiel 46: A Prince Who Bows
The prince of Ezekiel's vision is given a surprising role. On Sabbaths and New Moons the inner east gate is opened, and he bows in worship at its threshold while the priests offer…
- Ezekiel 47: Where the River Flows
Water trickles out from under the threshold of the temple and runs east (47:1-2). The guide measures off a thousand cubits and leads Ezekiel through it, ankle-deep. Another…
- Ezekiel 48: A City Named for His Presence
Ezekiel's book ends with a map. The land is divided among the tribes in bands, and in the middle lies a holy district with the sanctuary of the LORD at its center (48:1-10, 21).…