Ezekiel

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Chapters in Ezekiel

1. Ezekiel 1: Ezekiel’s Vision of God’s Glory

   Among the exiles in Babylon, the priest Ezekiel sees a fiery storm cloud from the north out of which come four winged creatures, each with four faces and a gleaming wheel beside it. Above them is a sapphire-like throne bearing a radiant human-like figure, a vision of the LORD’s glory, and Ezekiel falls on his face.

2. Ezekiel 2: Ezekiel Called to a Rebellious People

   The Spirit raises Ezekiel to his feet, and God sends him to the stubborn, rebellious people of Israel to speak God’s words whether or not they heed. He must not fear them or rebel himself, and a hand holds out to him a scroll covered on both sides with lament and woe.

3. Ezekiel 3: Ezekiel Eats the Scroll and Becomes a Watchman

   Ezekiel eats the scroll, which tastes sweet, and God makes him as unyielding as the hard-hearted people he must address. After a week sitting stunned among the exiles, he is appointed a watchman to warn the wicked and the righteous, and he is told to stay silent except when God gives him words.

4. Ezekiel 4: Ezekiel Acts Out the Siege

   God has Ezekiel act out the coming attack on Jerusalem with a city sketched on a brick and an iron plate, then lie on each side for many days bearing the guilt of Israel and Judah. He lives on scant, weighed food baked over an unclean fire, and when he protests, God changes the fuel and foretells famine in the city.

5. Ezekiel 5: The Shaved Hair and Jerusalem’s Judgment

   Ezekiel shaves his head and beard and splits the hair into three parts, picturing death by plague and famine, death by the sword, and scattering. God charges Jerusalem with rebelling worse than her neighbors and defiling His sanctuary, and vows famine, plague and war that will make her a warning to the nations.

6. Ezekiel 6: Judgment on Israel’s Idol Mountains

   Ezekiel prophesies against Israel’s mountains and hills, home to its idol shrines, announcing that the altars will be wrecked and the dead will lie before their idols. A remnant dispersed among the nations will remember the LORD and despise themselves for their sins, and all will learn that He is the LORD.

7. Ezekiel 7: The End Comes on the Land

   The LORD declares that doom has arrived for the whole land of Israel, repaying the people for their idolatry without pity. Trade, wealth and leaders all fail them: their money cannot rescue them, foreigners will take their treasures, and no prophet, priest or elder has guidance to give.

8. Ezekiel 8: Idolatry in the Temple

   In a vision, Ezekiel is carried from exile to the Jerusalem temple and shown worse and worse idolatry there. He sees an idol at the north gate, seventy elders burning incense to carved images in secret, women mourning for Tammuz, and men bowing to the sun, so God declares He will act in wrath.

9. Ezekiel 9: The Mark on the Faithful

   God summons six executioners and a man in linen as His glory moves to the temple threshold. The man marks everyone in Jerusalem who grieves over its idolatry so they will be spared, and judgment begins at the temple. Ezekiel pleads for Israel, but God says their great guilt will be repaid.

10. Ezekiel 10: The Glory Leaves the Temple

    In Ezekiel’s vision the man dressed in linen is sent to take fiery coals from beside the cherubim and spread them across Jerusalem. Ezekiel recognizes the cherubim, who move with their wheels, as the creatures of his first vision, and God’s glory moves with them to the temple’s eastern gate.

11. Ezekiel 11: Judgment on the Leaders and a New Heart

    At the temple’s east gate God condemns twenty-five men whose boast pictured Jerusalem as a pot protecting them, and Pelatiah dies as Ezekiel prophesies. God promises to gather the exiles and grant them a new spirit and soft heart, then His glory leaves Jerusalem for the mountain to its east.

12. Ezekiel 12: Ezekiel Acts Out the Exile

    God has Ezekiel pack his bags and dig through a wall as the people watch, a sign that Jerusalem’s ruler and people will be taken captive to Babylon. Ezekiel also eats in trembling to picture the city’s fear, and God rejects sayings that His warnings will never come true or are meant for a distant future.

13. Ezekiel 13: Against the False Prophets

    God condemns Israel's prophets who invent their own messages and promise safety while judgment approaches. Their false hope is pictured as a weak wall coated with plaster that a storm will flatten, and God also judges women who trap people with charms and lies, promising to free His people.

14. Ezekiel 14: Idols in the Heart and Personal Righteousness

    Elders who come to Ezekiel are exposed for cherishing idols, and God calls Israel to repent. He declares that even Noah, Daniel and Job could rescue only themselves from His judgment, yet a few survivors will reach the exiles and show that His judgment on Jerusalem was just.

15. Ezekiel 15: Jerusalem the Useless Vine

    God compares Jerusalem to the wood of a grapevine, which is worthless for building and fit only to burn, and even less useful once scorched. Because the people have been faithless, He will hand them over to the fire and leave the land a wasteland.

16. Ezekiel 16: Jerusalem the Unfaithful Wife

    God pictures Jerusalem as an abandoned baby girl He rescued, raised and made His own, who then turned to idols and foreign powers, a betrayal portrayed as adultery. He declares her worse than Samaria and Sodom, yet promises to remember His covenant, make it everlasting, and atone for her sins.

17. Ezekiel 17: The Two Eagles and the Cedar

    God gives Ezekiel a riddle of two great eagles, a cedar whose top is carried off, and a low vine that reaches toward the second eagle. He explains it as Babylon humbling Jerusalem’s rulers and a king breaking his sworn covenant by seeking help from Egypt, then promises to plant a shoot that becomes a great cedar.

18. Ezekiel 18: Each Person Answers for His Own Sin

    God rejects a popular proverb claiming that children are punished for their fathers’ sins and declares that each person answers for his own wrongdoing. He traces a righteous man, his violent son, and a godly grandson, answers the charge that He is unfair, and calls Israel to repent, gain a renewed heart, and live.

19. Ezekiel 19: A Lament for Israel's Princes

    Ezekiel sings a funeral song over Israel's rulers, pictured as young lions raised by a lioness. One is captured and dragged to Egypt and another caged and taken to Babylon, and their mother, now a vine, is torn up, burned, and replanted in a desert with no royal branch left.

20. Ezekiel 20: Israel's Rebellion and God's Name

    When elders come to consult the LORD, God refuses and recounts Israel's rebellion in Egypt and the wilderness, where He spared them for His name's sake, and later in the land. He vows to rule them, purge the rebels, and restore true worship on His holy mountain, then warns of a fire against the southern forest.

21. Ezekiel 21: The LORD’s Sharpened Sword

    God announces that His sword will sweep through Israel, and Ezekiel groans in public as a sign of the coming terror. Babylon’s king chooses the road to Jerusalem by divination, Judah’s wicked ruler is to lose his crown until its rightful owner comes, and Ammon is doomed too.

22. Ezekiel 22: Jerusalem’s Bloodshed and Corruption

    God charges Jerusalem with murder, idolatry, abuse of the weak, sexual sin and bribery, all rooted in forgetting Him. He pictures Israel as worthless slag to be melted in His anger, condemns its rulers, priests, prophets and people, and finds no one to stand in the breach.

23. Ezekiel 23: Oholah and Oholibah

    God pictures Samaria and Jerusalem as two sisters, Oholah and Oholibah, whose reliance on Assyria, Babylon and Egypt and their idols is portrayed as adultery. Samaria falls to Assyria, yet Jerusalem sinks lower and must drink her sister's cup, and both stand condemned for child sacrifice and defiling God's temple.

24. Ezekiel 24: The Boiling Pot and Ezekiel's Loss

    On the day Babylon begins its siege of Jerusalem, God likens the city to a rusted pot set on the fire for its bloodshed. Ezekiel is told not to mourn openly when his wife dies, a sign that God will profane the temple, and his silence will end when a survivor brings the news.

25. Ezekiel 25: Judgment on Judah’s Gloating Neighbors

    God pronounces judgment on four neighbors of Judah for how they treated its downfall. Ammon cheered over the defiled temple, Moab treated Judah as an ordinary nation, and Edom and the Philistines took spiteful revenge, so God promises to punish each in turn.

26. Ezekiel 26: The Coming Fall of Tyre

    God announces judgment on the wealthy port city of Tyre for gloating over Jerusalem’s ruin and expecting to gain from it. He will send nations against it like waves, including Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, scrape it down to bare stone, and make the coastal rulers tremble as it goes down to the realm of the dead.

27. Ezekiel 27: Funeral Song for Tyre the Great Ship

    Ezekiel is told to sing a funeral song for Tyre, picturing the proud trading city as a magnificent ship built from the finest materials and loaded with the wealth of many nations. An east wind wrecks it at sea, and sailors mourn bitterly while coastal kings shudder as it sinks for good.

28. Ezekiel 28: The Fall of Tyre’s Proud King

    God condemns the ruler of Tyre, whose wealth and cleverness led him to think himself divine, and promises a violent end to show he is only mortal. A lament pictures the king as a splendid figure in Eden cast down for pride and dishonest trade, then Sidon is judged and Israel is promised a safe return home.

29. Ezekiel 29: Judgment on Pharaoh and Egypt

    God sets Himself against Pharaoh, pictured as a river monster boasting that he made the Nile, and against Egypt, a weak reed for Israel. Egypt will lie waste, then return as a humble kingdom; God gives it to Nebuchadnezzar as pay for his army’s work against Tyre and promises to make a horn grow for Israel.

30. Ezekiel 30: Egypt’s Day of Doom

    Ezekiel announces that the LORD’s day of judgment is near for Egypt, when its allies will fall with it and Babylon’s ruthless army will lay the land waste. God will destroy Egypt’s idols, break Pharaoh’s arms, strengthen Babylon’s king, and scatter the Egyptians so they recognize Him as the LORD.

31. Ezekiel 31: Pharaoh and the Fallen Cedar

    God warns Pharaoh by pointing him to Assyria, pictured as a towering cedar that outgrew every tree in Eden. Because it became arrogant about its height, God had it cut down, the nations shook at its fall, and Pharaoh is told he will share the same fate.

32. Ezekiel 32: Mourning Over Pharaoh and Egypt

    Ezekiel sings a funeral song over Pharaoh, pictured as a sea creature that God catches in His net while the sky goes dark. Babylon’s king will crush Egypt’s pride, and a second lament shows Egypt going down to the grave beside other once-feared nations.

33. Ezekiel 33: The Watchman and the Fall of Jerusalem

    God again makes Ezekiel Israel’s watchman and pleads with the people to turn from evil and live, judging each person by his conduct. After a survivor reports Jerusalem’s fall, Ezekiel speaks again, God rejects the land claim of those left in the ruins, and He rebukes exiles who enjoy Ezekiel’s words but never obey.

34. Ezekiel 34: The LORD Shepherds His Flock

    God condemns Israel’s leaders as selfish shepherds who used the flock for their own gain and left it scattered and prey to wild animals. He vows to seek and rescue His sheep Himself, judge the strong who abuse the weak, set His servant David over them, and grant a covenant of peace bringing safety and plenty.

35. Ezekiel 35: Judgment on Mount Seir

    God announces judgment on Mount Seir, the land of Edom, for its long hatred of Israel and for giving the Israelites up to slaughter in their time of calamity. Because Edom tried to seize Israel’s land, spoke proudly against the LORD, and celebrated Israel’s ruin, it will itself be made desolate.

36. Ezekiel 36: God Promises Israel a New Heart

    God promises that Israel’s mocked and ruined mountains will again be farmed and filled with people. He scattered Israel for defiling the land, but for the sake of His holy name He will gather them, wash them clean, give them new hearts and His own Spirit, and make the land flourish like Eden.

37. Ezekiel 37: The Valley of Dry Bones

    In a vision Ezekiel prophesies over a valley of dry bones, and God brings them back to life as a great army. The bones picture exiled Israel, whom God will raise and fill with His Spirit. Ezekiel then joins two sticks to show Judah and Israel reunited under God’s servant David, with God dwelling among them forever.

38. Ezekiel 38: God Brings Gog Against Israel

    Ezekiel prophesies that God will lead Gog, a ruler from Magog, and a vast allied army against Israel after its people have been regathered and live in peace. Gog schemes to plunder the unprotected land, but God strikes his forces with an earthquake, infighting, disease, hail and fire to display His holiness.

39. Ezekiel 39: Gog Defeated and Israel Restored

    God declares that Gog’s army will fall on Israel’s mountains, so that His holy name is honored in Israel and among the nations. Israel burns the enemy’s weapons and buries the dead to purify the land, and the nations learn the exile was judgment for sin. God promises to bring His people home and give them His Spirit.

40. Ezekiel 40: A Vision of the New Temple

    Years into the exile, God carries Ezekiel in a vision to a lofty mountain in Israel, where a bronze-looking guide with measuring tools meets him. He tells Ezekiel to report all he sees to Israel, leads him through the gates and courts, names Zadok’s sons as the priests who may come near, and ends at the temple porch.

41. Ezekiel 41: The Sanctuary and Most Holy Place

    The guide leads Ezekiel into the sanctuary of the visionary temple and then goes on into the innermost room, naming it the Most Holy Place. Carved cherubim with palms between them cover the walls and doors, and a wooden altar is identified as the LORD’s table standing in His presence.

42. Ezekiel 42: Holy Rooms and the Surrounding Wall

    Ezekiel is shown the priests’ rooms beside the temple courtyard, where they are to eat the holiest offerings and change out of their sacred clothing before going among the people. The guide then measures the whole area, enclosed by a wall that divides what is holy from what is ordinary.

43. Ezekiel 43: The Glory Returns to the Temple

    Ezekiel watches the glory of Israel’s God come back from the east and fill the temple. The LORD names it the seat of His throne, where He will live with His people for good, tells Ezekiel to show Israel the house so they feel shame for their sins, and gives rules for cleansing and dedicating the altar.

44. Ezekiel 44: The Shut Gate and the Faithful Priests

    The LORD orders the outer east gate kept closed because He has entered by it, and He bars uncircumcised foreigners from His sanctuary. Levites who served idols lose priestly access, while Zadok’s faithful descendants serve near Him, teach the people, and have God Himself as their inheritance.

45. Ezekiel 45: A Holy Portion and Just Rulers

    Ezekiel’s vision sets apart a holy share of the land for the LORD, with space for the sanctuary, priests, Levites, the city and the prince. God calls Israel’s rulers to stop oppressing His people, requires honest weights and measures, and describes the offerings the prince provides for the feasts.

46. Ezekiel 46: The Prince at Worship and the Land

    God gives rules for worship in Ezekiel’s temple vision, with the prince bowing at the inner east gate on Sabbath and New Moon days and worshipers crossing the court at the feasts. The prince may not seize the people’s land, and the guide shows Ezekiel where the sacrifices are cooked.

47. Ezekiel 47: The River Flowing from the Temple

    Ezekiel sees water flowing east from beneath the temple and rising into a deep river that makes the Dead Sea fresh and full of fish. Fruit trees along its banks give food and healing every month. God then sets the borders of the land and gives resident foreigners a share with Israel.

48. Ezekiel 48: The Tribes and the City Where God Dwells

    God divides the land among all of Israel’s tribes, setting apart a holy district in the middle with His sanctuary at its center. The city has twelve gates bearing the tribes’ names, and Ezekiel’s book closes as the city is given a new name proclaiming that the LORD is present in it.