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# 📖 Ezekiel
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> [[#📖 Summary of Book]]
> [[#🧭 Theme Verse]]
> [[#🧭 Major Themes]]
> [[#📅 Outline of Book]]
> [[#✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes]]
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflections]]
> [[#📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights]]
## 📖 Summary of Book
> The book of Ezekiel contains vivid visions and powerful prophecies given to a priest-turned-prophet during Israel’s exile in Babylon. It warns of God’s judgment for sin but also offers hope through promises of restoration, a new heart, and a future temple. Ezekiel reveals God’s holiness, justice, and desire to dwell with His people once more.
#### 📚 Genre
- Prophetic Literature
- Major Prophets
#### 🙋♂️ Who is the Author
- Ezekiel, son of Buzi
#### ⌛️ When Was it Written
- Approximately 593–571 BC (during the Babylonian exile)
## 🧭 Theme Verse
>Ezekiel 36:26–27 (NET)
“I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you; I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully observe my regulations.”
## 🧭 Major Themes
• God’s holiness
• Individual responsibility
• Judgment and restoration
• God’s glory
• New heart and new spirit
• Accountability
• God’s sovereignty
• Hope in exile
• Covenant renewal
• God’s presence
## 📅 Outline of Book
- 1:1–24:27 — Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem
- Call and visions
- Symbolic acts
- Siege prophecies
- 25:1–32:32 — Judgment on the Nations
- Oracles against foreign powers
- 33:1–48:35 — Restoration and Future Hope
- Watchman renewed
- Valley of dry bones
- New temple vision
## ✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes
- [[Ezekiel 01]]
- [[Ezekiel 02]]
- [[Ezekiel 03]]
- [[Ezekiel 04]]
- [[Ezekiel 05]]
- [[Ezekiel 06]]
- [[Ezekiel 07]]
- [[Ezekiel 08]]
- [[Ezekiel 09]]
- [[Ezekiel 10]]
- [[Ezekiel 11]]
- [[Ezekiel 12]]
- [[Ezekiel 13]]
- [[Ezekiel 14]]
- [[Ezekiel 15]]
- [[Ezekiel 16]]
- [[Ezekiel 17]]
- [[Ezekiel 18]]
- [[Ezekiel 19]]
- [[Ezekiel 20]]
- [[Ezekiel 21]]
- [[Ezekiel 22]]
- [[Ezekiel 23]]
- [[Ezekiel 24]]
- [[Ezekiel 25]]
- [[Ezekiel 26]]
- [[Ezekiel 27]]
- [[Ezekiel 28]]
- [[Ezekiel 29]]
- [[Ezekiel 30]]
- [[Ezekiel 31]]
- [[Ezekiel 32]]
- [[Ezekiel 33]]
- [[Ezekiel 34]]
- [[Ezekiel 35]]
- [[Ezekiel 36]]
- [[Ezekiel 37]]
- [[Ezekiel 38]]
- [[Ezekiel 39]]
- [[Ezekiel 40]]
- [[Ezekiel 41]]
- [[Ezekiel 42]]
- [[Ezekiel 43]]
- [[Ezekiel 44]]
- [[Ezekiel 45]]
- [[Ezekiel 46]]
- [[Ezekiel 47]]
- [[Ezekiel 48]]
## 🙏 Devotional Reflections
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## 📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights
**Resources**
1. Daniel I. Block, The Book of Ezekiel (NICOT, 2 vols.)
2. Iain M. Duguid, Ezekiel (NIV Application Commentary)
3. Christopher J. H. Wright, The Message of Ezekiel (BST)
**Interesting Facts**
1. Ezekiel was both a priest and a prophet.
2. He was called to ministry at age 30.
3. The book contains some of the Bible’s most vivid visions.
4. Ezekiel performed dramatic symbolic acts.
5. The “wheel within a wheel” vision appears in chapter 1.
6. The valley of dry bones symbolizes Israel’s restoration.
7. Ezekiel emphasizes personal accountability.
8. He prophesied from Babylon, not Jerusalem.
9. The final chapters describe a future temple in great detail.
10. “They will know that I am the LORD” appears repeatedly.
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