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The '''Book of Ezekiel''' is the third of the [[Nevi'im#Latter Prophets|Latter Prophets]] in the [[Hebrew Bible|Tanakh]] (Hebrew Bible) and one of the [[Major Prophets|major prophetic]] books in the Christian Bible, where it follows [[Book of Isaiah|Isaiah]] and [[book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]].{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p=88}} According to the book itself, it records six visions of the [[Biblical prophet|prophet]] [[Ezekiel]], exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years from 593 to 571&nbsp;BC. It is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the words of the prophet.{{sfn|Joyce|2009|p=16}}

The visions and the book are structured around three themes: (1) judgment on Israel (chapters 1–24); (2) judgment on the nations (chapters 25–32); and (3) future blessings for Israel (chapters 33–48).{{sfn|Petersen|2002|p=140}} Its themes include the concepts of the [[Divine presence#Judaism|presence of God]], purity, Israel as a divine community, and individual responsibility to God. Its later influence has included the development of [[Mysticism|mystical]] and apocalyptic traditions in [[Second Temple Judaism]], [[Rabbinic Judaism]], and [[Christianity]].

== Structure ==
Ezekiel has a broad threefold structure:
* Prophecies against Judah and Jerusalem, [[Ezekiel 1|chapters 1]]–[[Ezekiel 24|24]]
* Prophecies against the foreign nations, [[Ezekiel 25|chapters 25]]–[[Ezekiel 32|32]]
* Prophecies of hope and salvation, [[Ezekiel 33|chapters 33]]–[[Ezekiel 48|48]].{{sfn|McKeating|1993|p=15}}

== Summary ==
[[File:Flemish - Ezekiel's Vision of the Sign "Tau" (Ezekiel IX -2-7) - Walters 44616.jpg|thumb|A mid-12th-century [[Flanders|Flemish]] piece of copperwork depicting Ezekiel's Vision of the Sign "Tau" from Ezekiel IX:2–7. The item is held by the [[Walters Museum]].]]
[[File:Ezikiel scroll.png|thumb|Scroll of the prophet Ezekiel]]
The book opens with a vision of [[Yahweh|YHWH]] ({{Script/Hebrew|יהוה}}). The book moves on to anticipate the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, explains this as God's punishment, and closes with the promise of a new beginning and a [[Third Temple|new Temple]].<ref>Redditt 2008, p. 148</ref>
# Inaugural vision [[Ezekiel 1:1]]–3:27: God approaches Ezekiel as the divine warrior, riding in His [[Merkabah|battle chariot]].  The chariot is drawn by four living creatures, each having four faces (those of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle) and four wings. Beside each "living creature" is a "wheel within a wheel", with "tall and awesome" rims full of eyes all around. God commissions Ezekiel as a prophet and as a "watchman" in Israel: "Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites." (2:3)
# Judgment on Israel and Judah<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|4:1–24:27|HE}}</ref> and on the nations:<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|25:1–32:32|HE}}</ref> God warns of the certain destruction of [[Jerusalem]] and of the devastation of the nations that have troubled His people: the [[Ammon]]ites, [[Moab]]ites, [[Edom]]ites and [[Philistines]], the Phoenician cities of [[Tyre (Lebanon)|Tyre]] and [[Sidon]], and [[Biblical Egypt|Egypt]].
# Building a new city:<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|33:1–48:35|HE}}</ref> The Jewish exile will come to an end, a new city and new Temple will be built, and the Israelites will be gathered and blessed as never before.

Some of the highlights include:<ref>Blenkinsopp (1990)</ref>

* The "throne vision", in which Ezekiel sees God enthroned in the Temple among the Heavenly Host;<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|1:4–28|HE}}</ref>
* The first "temple vision", in which Ezekiel sees God leave the Temple because of the abominations practiced there (meaning the worship of idols rather than YHWH, the official God of Judah);<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|8:1–16|HE}}</ref>
* Images of Israel, in which Israel is seen as a harlot bride, among other things;<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|15–19|HE}}</ref>
* The [[Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones|"valley of dry bones"]], in which the prophet sees the dead of the house of Israel rise again;<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|37:1–14|HE}}</ref>
* The destruction of [[Gog and Magog]], in which Ezekiel sees Israel's enemies destroyed and a new age of peace established;<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|38–39|HE}}</ref>
*The final temple vision, in which Ezekiel sees the third temple commonwealth centered on a new temple in Jerusalem, to which God's [[Shekinah]] ([[Divine Presence]]) has returned.<ref>{{bibleverse|Ezekiel|40–48|HE}}</ref>

== Composition ==
[[File:Book of Ezekiel.jpg|thumb|Manuscript in Hebrew and Latin from [[Kingdom of England|England]], early 13th century, showing part of [[Ezekiel 30]]]]

=== Life and times of Ezekiel ===
The Book of Ezekiel is described as the words of [[Ezekiel]] ben-Buzi, a priest living in exile in the city of [[Babylon]] between 593 and 571 BC. Most scholars today accept the basic authenticity of the book, but see in it significant additions by a school of later followers of the original prophet. According to Jewish tradition, the [[Men of the Great Assembly]] wrote the Book of Ezekiel, based on the prophet's words.<ref>[[Babylonian Talmud]], ''[[Baba Batra]]'' [http://www.come-and-hear.com/bababathra/bababathra_15.html 15a]</ref> While the book exhibits considerable unity and probably reflects much of the historic Ezekiel, it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the very words of the prophet.{{sfn|Joyce|2009|p=16}}

According to the book that bears his name, Ezekiel ben-Buzi was born into a priestly family of Jerusalem c.623&nbsp;BC, during the reign of the reforming king [[Josiah]]. Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the [[Assyria]]n empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c. 630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform stressing loyalty to [[Yahweh]], the God of Israel. Josiah was killed in 609 and Judah became a vassal of the new regional power, the [[Neo-Babylonian empire]]. In 597, following a rebellion against Babylon, Ezekiel was among the large group of Judeans taken into [[Babylonian captivity|captivity by the Babylonians]]. He appears to have spent the rest of his life in [[Mesopotamia]]. A further deportation of Jews from Jerusalem to Babylon occurred in 586 when a second unsuccessful rebellion resulted in the destruction of the city and its Temple and the exile of the remaining elements of the royal court, including the last scribes and priests. The various dates given in the book suggest that Ezekiel was 25 when he went into exile, 30 when he received his prophetic call, and 52 at the time of the last vision {{Circa|571}}.{{sfn|Drinkard|1996|pp=160–61}}

=== Textual history ===
The Book of Ezekiel, in contradistinction to the work of earlier prophets, is a ''written'' prophecy—largely self-authored with the exception of a short interpolation by the [[Dead Sea Scrolls|Zadokites]] at the very end of the scroll.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Cook |first=Stephen L. |title=Ezekiel 38-48: a new translation with introduction and commentary |date=2018 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-21881-7 |series=The Anchor Yale Bible |location=New Haven (Conn.) London}}</ref> There were two versions or parts of the book (or otherwise two copies with some differences between them), both written by Ezekiel at the time of his death according to an ancient tradition which has more recently been confirmed by source criticism.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> 

Earlier prophecies are the transcripts of messages delivered by the prophets named at the heading of each book of prophecy, later taken down by scribes; whereas, scholars are agreed that Ezekiel took this prophecy down in his own hand.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Grinberg |first=Mosheh |title=Ezekiel: 1-20 ; a new translation with introduction and commentary |last2=Ezechiel |date=1983 |publisher=Yale Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-300-13966-2 |series=The Anchor Bible |location=New Haven, Conn.}}</ref>  This does not necessarily indicate that Ezekiel did not deliver oral teachings or prophecies in the [[Tel Abib]] community where he had been deported along with the other [[Judea|Judean]] elites. According to Ezekiel’s own account in the text of the book that he wrote, he did have a mission to the community and spoke to the people but he may or may not have done so in quite so transparently public a way as previous prophets who stood and spoke on their own soil had done, given the conditions of the exile, apart from his notable pantomime of the destruction of Judah described in the book which took place in public but is described as a gestural and prop-driven acting out of the devastation of the temple and of Jerusalem which took place over forty days.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> That he wrote the book himself is a unique distinction up to that time, in terms of the way that the text of the prophecy was composed and handed down by way of the tradition. At any rate, that is the present consensus of the scholarship in [[Source criticism (biblical studies)|source criticism]] in 2025. 

The Jewish scriptures, mostly in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], were translated into Greek in the two centuries prior to the [[Common Era]] &mdash; a version known as the [[Septuagint]]. The Hebrew version was later formalised into the [[Masoretic Text]]. The Greek (Septuagint) version of Ezekiel differs slightly from the Hebrew (Masoretic) version – it is about 8 verses shorter (out of 1,272)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_verses_are_in_the_the_book_of_Ezekiel|title=How many verses are in the book of Ezekiel?|website=[[Answers.com]]}}</ref> and possibly represents an earlier transmission of the book we have today (according to the Masoretic tradition) – while other ancient manuscript fragments differ from both.{{sfn|Blenkinsopp|1996|p=130}}

=== Critical history ===
During the first half of the 20th century, scholars such as [[Charles Cutler Torrey|C. C. Torrey]] (1863–1956) and [[Morton Smith]] placed its authorship and later redaction variously in the 3rd century BC and in the 8th/7th.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Morton |date=1975-01-01 |title=The Veracity of Ezekiel, the Sins of Manasseh, and Jeremiah 44 18 |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/zatw.1975.87.1.11/html |journal=Zeitschrift für die Altetestamentliche Wissenschafte |language=de |volume=87 |issue=1 |pages=11–16 |doi=10.1515/zatw.1975.87.1.11 |issn=1613-0103}}</ref><ref>Pseudo-Ezekiel and the Original Prophecy, by C. C. Torrey, and Critical Articles by S. Spiegel and C. C. Torrey; Prolegomenon by M. Greenberg, 1970.</ref> The pendulum swung back in the [[post-war period]], with an increasing acceptance of the book's essential unity and historical placement in the Exile. [[Walther Zimmerli]]'s two-volume commentary appeared in German in 1969 and in English in 1979 and 1983, and traces the process by which Ezekiel's oracles were delivered orally and transformed into a written text by the prophet and his followers through a process of ongoing re-writing and re-interpretation.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zimmerli |first=Walther |title=Ezekiel 1: a commentary on the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, chapters 1-24 |last2=Zimmerli |first2=Walther |date=1979 |publisher=Fortress Press |isbn=978-0-8006-6008-6 |editor-last=Cross |editor-first=Frank Moore |series=Hermeneia |location=Philadelphia |translator-last=Clements |translator-first=Ronald Ernest |editor-last2=Baltzer |editor-first2=Klaus |editor-last3=Greenspoon |editor-first3=Leonard Jay}}</ref> He isolates the oracles and speeches behind the present text, and traces Ezekiel's interaction with a mass of mythological, legendary and literary material as he developed his insights into Yahweh's purposes during the period of destruction and exile.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|pp=165–66}} As noted at the top of the section on textual history, the latter interpretation is fleshed out in the translation by [[Moshe Greenberg]] and Stephen L. Cook in the [[Anchor Bible Series|Anchor Edition]] of the Book of Ezekiel, recently completed in 2025 and embarked upon over forty years ago in the wake of Zimmerli’s revision.

== Themes ==
[[File:Yad Vashem Memorial to survivors by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|left|Monument to [[Holocaust survivors]] at [[Yad Vashem]] in [[Jerusalem]]; the quote is Ezekiel 37:14.]]

As a priest, Ezekiel is fundamentally concerned with the ''[[K-B-D|Kavod YHWH]]'', a technical phrase meaning the presence (shekhinah) of [[YHWH]] (i.e., one of the [[Names of God in Judaism|Names of God]]) among the people, in the Tabernacle, and in the Temple, and normally translated as "glory of God".{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p=91}} In Ezekiel the phrase describes God mounted on His throne-chariot as he departs from the Temple in chapters 1–11 and returns to what Marvin Sweeney describes as a portrayal of "the establishment of the new temple in Zion as YHWH returns to the temple, which then serves as the center for a new creation with the tribes of Israel arrayed around it" in chapters 40–48.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p=92}} The vision in chapters 1:4–28 reflects common Biblical themes and the imagery of the Temple: God appears in a cloud from the north – the north being the usual home of God in Biblical literature – with four living creatures corresponding to the two [[cherubim]] above the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant and the two in the Holy of Holies, the innermost chamber of the Temple; the burning coals of fire between the creatures perhaps represents the fire on the sacrificial altar, and the famous "wheel within a wheel" may represent the rings by which the Levites carried the Ark, or the wheels of the cart.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p=92}}

Ezekiel depicts the destruction of Jerusalem as a purificatory sacrifice upon the altar, made necessary by the abominations in the Temple (the presence of idols and the worship of the god [[Tammuz (deity)|Tammuz]]) described in chapter 8.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|pp=92–93}} The process of purification begins, God prepares to leave, and a priest lights the sacrificial fire to the city.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p=93}} Nevertheless, the prophet announces that a small remnant will remain true to Yahweh in exile, and will return to the purified city.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p=93}} The image of the valley of dry bones returning to life in chapter 37 signifies the restoration of the purified Israel.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p=93}}

Previous prophets had used "Israel" to mean the northern kingdom and its tribes; when Ezekiel speaks of Israel he is addressing the deported remnant of Judah; at the same time, however, he can use this term to mean the glorious future destiny of a truly comprehensive "Israel".{{sfn|Goldingay|2003|p=624}} In sum, the book describes God's promise that the people of Israel will maintain their covenant with God when they are purified and receive a "new heart" (another of the book's images) which will enable them to observe God's commandments and live in the land in a proper relationship with Yahweh.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|pp=93–94}}

The theology of Ezekiel is notable for its contribution to the emerging notion of individual responsibility to God – each man would be held responsible only for his own sins. This is in marked contrast to the [[Deuteronomist]]ic writers, who held that the sins of the nation would be held against all, without regard for an individual's personal guilt. Nonetheless, Ezekiel shared many ideas in common with the Deuteronomists, notably the notion that God works according to the principle of [[retributive justice]] and an ambivalence towards kingship (although the Deuteronomists reserved their scorn for individual kings rather than for the office itself). As a priest, Ezekiel praises the [[Zadokite]]s over the [[Levite]]s (lower level temple functionaries), whom he largely blames for the destruction and exile. He is clearly connected with the [[Holiness Code]] and its vision of a future dependent on keeping the Laws of God and maintaining ritual purity. Notably, Ezekiel blames the Babylonian exile not on the people's failure to keep the Law, but on their worship of gods other than Yahweh and their injustice: these, says Ezekiel in chapters 8–11, are the reasons God's [[Shekhinah]] left his city and his people.{{sfn|Kugler|Hartin|2009|p=261}}

== Later interpretation and influence ==

=== Second Temple and rabbinic Judaism (c. 515 BC – 500 AD) ===
{{See also|Merkabah mysticism}}
Ezekiel's imagery provided much of the basis for the [[Second Temple]] mystical tradition in which the visionary ascended through the [[Seven Heavens]] in order to experience the presence of God and understand His actions and intentions.{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p=88}} The book's literary influence can be seen in the later [[Apocalyptic literature|apocalyptic]] writings of Daniel and Zechariah. He is specifically mentioned by Ben Sirah (a writer of the Hellenistic period who listed the "great sages" of Israel) and 4 Maccabees (1st century). In the 1st century the historian [[Josephus]] said that the prophet wrote two books: he may have had in mind the [[Apocryphon of Ezekiel]], a 1st-century text that expands on the doctrine of resurrection. Ezekiel appears only briefly in the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]], but his influence there was profound, most notably in the [[Temple Scroll]] with its temple plans, and the defence of the [[Zadok]]ite priesthood in the [[Damascus Document]].{{sfn|Block|1997|p=43}} There was apparently some question concerning the inclusion of Ezekiel in the canon of scripture, since it is frequently at odds with the [[Torah]] (the five "Books of Moses" which are foundational to Judaism).{{sfn|Sweeney|1998|p=88}}

=== Christianity ===
Ezekiel is referenced more in the [[Book of Revelation]] than in any other New Testament writing.{{sfn|Buitenwerf|2007|p=165}} To take just two well-known passages, the famous [[Gog and Magog]] prophecy in Revelation 20:8 refers back to Ezekiel 38–39,{{sfn|Buitenwerf|2007|pp=165 ff}} and in Revelation 21–22, as in the closing visions of Ezekiel, the prophet is transported to a high mountain where a heavenly messenger measures the symmetrical new Jerusalem, complete with high walls and twelve gates, the dwelling-place of God where His people will enjoy a state of perfect well-being.{{sfn|Block|1998|p=502}} Apart from Revelation, however, where Ezekiel is a major source, there is very little allusion to the prophet in the New Testament; the reasons for this are unclear, but it cannot be assumed that every Christian or [[Hellenistic Judaism|Hellenistic Jewish]] community in the 1st century would have had a complete set of (Hebrew) scripture scrolls, and in any case Ezekiel was under suspicion of encouraging dangerous mystical speculation, as well as being sometimes obscure, incoherent, and pornographic.{{sfn|Muddiman|2007|p=137}}

<gallery>
File:Secondtempleplan.jpg|The Visionary Ezekiel Temple plan drawn by the 19th-century French architect and Bible scholar [[Charles Chipiez]]
File:The Vision of The Valley of The Dry Bones.jpg|''The Vision of The Valley of The Dry Bones'' by [[Gustave Doré]], 1866
File:Marten de Vos 001.jpg|''Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones'' by [[Maerten de Vos]], c. 1600
File:Quinten Massys Vision des Propheten Ezechiels.jpg|''Ezekiel's Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones'' by [[Quentin Metsys the Younger]], c. 1589
</gallery>

== In popular culture ==
{{For|allusions to the prophet himself|Ezekiel#In popular culture}}

• The angelic creatures and accompanying wheels seen by Ezekiel in Chapter 1 are referred to by the [[spirituals|spiritual song]] ''[[Ezekiel Saw the Wheel]]''.
In the ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' video game series, the Nod Stealth Tank is sometimes referred to as the "Ezekiel Wheel", referring to the same passage.

• The imagery in Ezekiel 37:1–14 of the Valley of Dry Bones, which Ezekiel prophesies will be resurrected, is referred to in the 1928 [[spirituals|spiritual song]] "[[Dem Dry Bones]]", the folk song [[Dry Bones (folk song)|Dry Bones]] and the song ''Black Cowboys'' by Bruce Springsteen on his 2005 album ''[[Devils & Dust]]''.

• A heavily modified version of one passage of the book appears in the [[Sonny Chiba]] movie ''[[Karate Kiba]]'' (''The Bodyguard''; 1976), where it is both shown as a scrolling text and read by an offscreen narrator and claimed to be Ezekiel 25:17.{{sfn|Thomas|2003|loc=pp. 61–62: Thomas notes that instead of "the Lord", this version reads "...&nbsp;and they shall know that I am Chiba the Bodyguard&nbsp;..."}}{{sfn|Conard|2006|loc=p. 134: Conard claims that the text originates from the film ''Bodigaado Kiba'' (''Bodyguard Kiba'' or ''The Bodyguard''; 1973) and that the end phrase there is "And you will know my name is Chiba the Bodyguard&nbsp;..."}} [[Quentin Tarantino]] lifted this version almost verbatim for a speech by a character in his movie ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''.

== See also ==
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{{Wikisource|Ezekiel (Bible)}}
{{Commons category|Book of Ezekiel}}
*[[Amillennialism]]
*[[Biblical numerology]]
*[[Jerusalem in Christianity]]
*[[Land of Israel]]
*[[Millenarianism]]
*[[New Jerusalem]]
*[[Rape in the Hebrew Bible#Ezekiel 16 and 23|Rape in the Hebrew Bible § Ezekiel 16 and 23]]
*[[Temple in Jerusalem]]
*[[Third Temple]]

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|title                      =Ezekiel
|publisher                  =Continuum
|year                       =1993
|url                        =https://books.google.com/books?id=t9S4HMXgFMoC&q=mckeating+ezekiel
|isbn                       =9781850754282
}}
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|last                       =Muddiman
|first                      =John
|chapter                    =The So-Called Bridal Bath...
|editor1-last               =De Jonge
|editor1-first              =H.J.
|editor2-last               =Tromp
|editor2-first              =Johannes
|title                      =The Book of Ezekiel and Its Influence
|publisher                  =Ashgate Publishing
|year                       =2007
|chapter-url                        =https://books.google.com/books?id=DAyzzK7COmoC&q=The+So-Called+Bridal+Bath&pg=PA139
|isbn                       =9780754655831
}}
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|last                       =Petersen
|first                      =David L
|title                      =The prophetic literature: an introduction
|publisher                  =John Knox Press
|year                       =2002
|url                        =https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9zLXRhNl9MC&q=The+prophetic+literature:+an+introduction++By+David+L.+Petersen
|isbn                       =9780664254537
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|last                       =Redditt
|first                      = Paul L.
|title                      =Introduction to the Prophets
|publisher                  =Eerdmans
|year                       =2008
|url                        =https://books.google.com/books?id=bKM_VJt9e3kC&q=Introduction+to+the+Prophets++By+Paul+L.+Redditt
|isbn                       =9780802828965
}}
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|first                      =Marvin A.
|chapter                    =The Latter Prophets
|chapter-url                        =https://books.google.com/books?id=owwhpmIVgSAC&q=The+Latter+Prophets+Isaiah%2C+Jeremiah%2C+Ezekiel+Marvin+A.+Sweeney&pg=PA69
|editor                     =Steven L. McKenzie, Matt Patrick Graham
|title                      =The Hebrew Bible today: an introduction to critical issues
|publisher                  =Westminster John Knox Press
|year                       =1998
|isbn                       =9780664256524
}}
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== External links ==
'''Online translations'''
* [http://www.ecmarsh.com/lxx/Jezekiel/index.htm English Translation of the Greek Septuagint Bible: Ezekiel]
* [http://www.chabad.org/library/archive/LibraryArchive2.asp?AID=16098 Yechezkiel from Chabad.org]
* [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel;&version=49; BibleGateway] (various translations)
**  {{librivox book | dtitle=Bible: Ezekiel| stitle=26: Ezekiel}} (various versions)

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