Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Book Overview - Ezekiel

by E.W. Bullinger

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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL.

THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK AS A WHOLE.

( Introversion and Extended Alternation )

Ezekiel 1:1 - Ezekiel 12:28. THE DESOLATION.

Ezekiel 13:1-25. PROPHETS AND PROPHETESSES.

Ezekiel 14:1-11. ELDERS.

Ezekiel 14:12 - Ezekiel 15:8. THE LAND AND CITY. (JUDGMENT.)

Ezekiel 16:1-63. JERUSALEM. (DESERTED INFANT.)

Ezekiel 17:1-24. BABYLONIAN WAR. (PARABLE.)

Ezekiel 18:1-32. THE PEOPLE. PROVERB. (SOUR GRAPES.)

Ezekiel 19:1-14. THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL.

Ezekiel 20:1-44. ELDERS.

Ezekiel 20:45-22:31. THE LAND AND CITY. (JUDGMENTS.)

Ezekiel 23:1-49. JERUSALEM. (TWO SISTERS.)

Ezekiel 24:13 - Ezekiel 32:32. BABYLONIAN WAR. (PARABLE.)

Ezekiel 33:1-22. THE PEOPLE. SIGN. (WATCHMAN.)

Ezekiel 33:23-33. THE INHABITANT OF THE WASTES.

Ezekiel 34:1-31. SHEPHERDS AND FLOCK.

Ezekiel 35:1 - Ezekiel 48:35. THE RESTORATION.

NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL.

For the Canonical order and place of the Prophets, see Appdx-1 and p. 1206. For the Chronological order of the Prophets, see Appdx-77. For the Inter-relation of the Prophetical Books, see Appdx-78. For the Formulae of Prophetic utterances, see Appdx-82. For the Chronological order of Ezekiel""s prophecy, see below. For the References to the Pentateuch in the Prophetical Books, see Appdx-92. For the Plan of Ezekiel""s temple, see Appdx-88.

The Canonical order of Ezekiel""s prophecies is Logical , but not strictly Chronological . Later utterances and visions are recorded in their logical connections rather than in their historical sequence. This latter is noted, so that we make no mistake. When this fact is observed, and the records discriminated, the meaning becomes perfectly clear. See the table below.

They may be set out as follows:

THE DATED YEARS IN EZEKIEL.

These are thirteen in number, and cover a period of twenty-one years (a period of three sevens):viz. from 484-3 to 463-2 B.C. Arranged chronologically, the seventh stands in the center, with six on either side. Reckoning the three in the 11th year as one year, and the three in the 12th year, as one year, we have nine several years:viz. the 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th ( seven ):and then, after a break of thirteen years, we have two :viz. the 25th and 27th.

Year of the Captivity of Jehoiachin.

Month.

Day

Chapters

B.C.

5th

4th Thammuz (July)

5th

Ezekiel 1:1-2

484

5th

4th Thammuz (July)

12th

Ezekiel 3:16

484

6th

6th Elul (Sept.)

5th

Ezekiel 8:1

483

7th

5th Ab (Aug.)

10th

Ezekiel 20:1

482

9th

10th Tebeth (Jan.)

10th

Ezekiel 24:1

480

10th

10th Tebeth (Jan.)

12th

Ezekiel 29:1

479

11th

1st Abid, or Nisan (April)1

1st

Ezekiel 26:1

478

11th

1st Abid, or Nisan (April)

7th

Ezekiel 30:20

478

478

478

478

478

478

These prophecies were uttered before the fall of Jerusalem.

12th12th Adar (March)1stEzekiel 32:1477

12th

12th Adar (March)2

15th

Ezekiel 32:17

477

12th

10th (Tebeth (Jan.)

5th

Ezekiel 33:21

477

25th

1st Abid, or Nisan (April)

10th

Ezekiel 40:1

465

27th

1st Abid, or Nisan (April)

1st

Ezekiel 29:17

463

These prophecies were uttered at and after the fall of Jerusalem.

...because the visions of ch. 1 and 10 had already been seen, and the one recorded in ch. 10 is said to have been similar to that already seen in ch. 1. Moreover, if it be in succession to the 27th

year, why is it brought into the very beginning of the book without any reason being assigned, or hint given?

The 30th year of Ezekiel 1:1 cannot have anything to do with Ezekiel""s age, or with the commencement of his service as priest; for this is to misread Numbers 4:3, which states that "all that enter into the host, to do the work of the tabernacle", were taken after the end of the 29th

year, "from thirty years old and upward, even until fifty years". Moreover, this thirty years"" rule was abrogated by Divine direction to David in 1 Chronicles 23:24-27 (cp. 2 Chronicles 31:17), and changed to "twenty years old and upward".

The 30th year cannot be fitted into any sequence of dates commencing with the fifth year of Jehoiachin""s Captivity (Ezekiel 1:2), which, in

and 40:1, he speaks of as "our captivity".