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    EZEKIEL

    OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

    • 1

      • Ezekiel in Babylon sees visions of God (1-3)

      • Vision of Jehovah’s celestial chariot (4-28)

        • Storm, cloud, and fire (4)

        • Four living creatures (5-14)

        • Four wheels (15-21)

        • An expanse sparkling like ice (22-24)

        • Jehovah’s throne (25-28)

    • 2

      • Ezekiel commissioned as prophet (1-10)

        • ‘Whether they listen or not’ (5)

        • Shown a scroll of dirges (9, 10)

    • 3

      • Ezekiel to eat the God-given scroll (1-15)

      • Ezekiel to serve as a watchman (16-27)

        • Negligence leads to bloodguilt (18-21)

    • 4

      • Siege of Jerusalem portrayed (1-17)

        • Guilt carried for 390 days and 40 days (4-7)

    • 5

      • Fall of Jerusalem portrayed (1-17)

        • Prophet’s shaved hair divided into three portions (1-4)

        • Jerusalem worse than the nations (7-9)

        • Rebels dealt with in three ways (12)

    • 6

      • Against the mountains of Israel (1-14)

        • Disgusting idols to be humiliated (4-6)

        • “You will have to know that I am Jehovah” (7)

    • 7

      • The end has come (1-27)

        • A unique calamity (5)

        • Money thrown into the streets (19)

        • The temple to be profaned (22)

    • 8

      • Ezekiel taken to Jerusalem in a vision (1-4)

      • Detestable things seen in the temple (5-18)

        • Women weeping over Tammuz (14)

        • Men worshipping the sun (16)

    • 9

      • Six executioners and man with inkhorn (1-11)

        • Judgment to start at the sanctuary (6)

    • 10

      • Fire taken from between the wheels (1-8)

      • Cherubs and wheels described (9-17)

      • God’s glory leaves the temple (18-22)

    • 11

      • Evil princes condemned (1-13)

        • City compared to a cooking pot (3-12)

      • Promise of restoration (14-21)

        • “A new spirit” given (19)

      • God’s glory leaves Jerusalem (22, 23)

      • Ezekiel returns in vision to Chaldea (24, 25)

    • 12

      • Exile foretold by symbolic actions (1-20)

        • Luggage for exile (1-7)

        • Chieftain will leave in darkness (8-16)

        • Bread of anxiety, water of horror (17-20)

      • A deceptive saying proved false (21-28)

        • “None of my words will be delayed” (28)

    • 13

      • Against the false prophets (1-16)

        • Whitewashed walls to fall (10-12)

      • Against the false prophetesses (17-23)

    • 14

      • Idolaters condemned (1-11)

      • Judgment on Jerusalem inescapable (12-23)

        • Righteous Noah, Daniel, and Job (14, 20)

    • 15

      • Jerusalem, a useless vine (1-8)

    • 16

      • God’s love for Jerusalem (1-63)

        • Found as an abandoned child (1-7)

        • God adorns her and enters a marriage covenant with her (8-14)

        • She becomes unfaithful (15-34)

        • Punished as an adulteress (35-43)

        • Compared to Samaria and Sodom (44-58)

        • God remembers his covenant (59-63)

    • 17

      • The riddle of the two eagles and the vine (1-21)

      • A tender shoot to become a majestic cedar (22-24)

    • 18

      • Each one responsible for his own sins (1-32)

        • The soul who sins will die (4)

        • A son not to pay for his father’s sin (19, 20)

        • No pleasure in death of the wicked (23)

        • Repentance brings life (27, 28)

    • 19

      • A dirge for Israel’s chieftains (1-14)

    • 20

      • A history of Israel’s rebellion (1-32)

      • Restoration promised for Israel (33-44)

      • Prophecy against the south (45-49)

    • 21

      • God’s sword of judgment unsheathed (1-17)

      • Babylon’s king to attack Jerusalem (18-24)

      • Wicked chieftain of Israel to be removed (25-27)

        • “Take off the crown” (26)

        • “Until the one who has the legal right comes” (27)

      • Sword against the Ammonites (28-32)

    • 22

      • Jerusalem, the bloodguilty city (1-16)

      • Israel like worthless dross (17-22)

      • Leaders and people of Israel condemned (23-31)

    • 23

      • Two sisters who are unfaithful (1-49)

        • Oholah with Assyria (5-10)

        • Oholibah with Babylon and Egypt (11-35)

        • Punishment on the two sisters (36-49)

    • 24

      • Jerusalem like a rusty cooking pot (1-14)

      • Death of Ezekiel’s wife a sign (15-27)

    • 25

      • Prophecy against Ammon (1-7)

      • Prophecy against Moab (8-11)

      • Prophecy against Edom (12-14)

      • Prophecy against Philistia (15-17)

    • 26

      • Prophecy against Tyre (1-21)

        • “A drying yard for dragnets” (5, 14)

        • Stones and soil thrown into the water (12)

    • 27

      • A dirge over the sinking ship of Tyre (1-36)

    • 28

      • Prophecy against Tyre’s king (1-10)

        • “I am a god” (2, 9)

      • Dirge over Tyre’s king (11-19)

        • “You were in Eden” (13)

        • “The anointed covering cherub” (14)

        • “Unrighteousness was found in you” (15)

      • Prophecy against Sidon (20-24)

      • Israel to be restored (25, 26)

    • 29

      • Prophecy against Pharaoh (1-16)

      • Egypt to be given to Babylon as a reward (17-21)

    • 30

      • Prophecy against Egypt (1-19)

        • Nebuchadnezzar’s attack foretold (10)

      • Pharaoh’s power broken (20-26)

    • 31

      • The fall of Egypt, the lofty cedar (1-18)

    • 32

      • Dirge over Pharaoh and Egypt (1-16)

      • Egypt’s burial with the uncircumcised (17-32)

    • 33

      • Responsibilities of a watchman (1-20)

      • News about Jerusalem’s fall (21, 22)

      • Message to inhabitants of the ruins (23-29)

      • People not acting on the message (30-33)

        • Ezekiel “like a romantic love song” (32)

        • “A prophet has been among them” (33)

    • 34

      • Prophecy against Israel’s shepherds (1-10)

      • Jehovah’s care for his sheep (11-31)

        • “My servant David” to shepherd them (23)

        • “A covenant of peace” (25)

    • 35

      • Prophecy against mountains of Seir (1-15)

    • 36

      • Prophecy about mountains of Israel (1-15)

      • Restoration of Israel (16-38)

        • ‘I will sanctify my great name’ (23)

        • “Like the garden of Eden” (35)

    • 37

      • Vision of the valley of dry bones (1-14)

      • Two sticks to be joined together (15-28)

        • One nation under one king (22)

        • Eternal covenant of peace (26)

    • 38

      • Gog’s attack on Israel (1-16)

      • Jehovah’s anger against Gog (17-23)

        • ‘Nations will have to know that I am Jehovah’ (23)

    • 39

      • Destruction of Gog and his troops (1-10)

      • Burial in the Valley of Hamon-Gog (11-20)

      • Restoration of Israel (21-29)

        • God’s spirit poured out on Israel (29)

    • 40

      • Ezekiel brought to Israel in a vision (1, 2)

      • Ezekiel sees a visionary temple (3, 4)

      • The courtyards and gates (5-47)

        • The outer east gate (6-16)

        • The outer courtyard; other gates (17-26)

        • The inner courtyard and gates (27-37)

        • Rooms for temple service (38-46)

        • The altar (47)

      • The porch of the temple (48, 49)

    • 41

      • The sanctuary of the temple (1-4)

      • The wall and the side chambers (5-11)

      • The west building (12)

      • Buildings measured (13-15a)

      • The interior of the sanctuary (15b-26)

    • 42

      • Dining-room blocks (1-14)

      • The four sides of the temple measured (15-20)

    • 43

      • Jehovah’s glory fills the temple (1-12)

      • The altar (13-27)

    • 44

      • The east gate to remain shut (1-3)

      • Regulations regarding foreigners (4-9)

      • Regulations for Levites and priests (10-31)

    • 45

      • The holy contribution and the city (1-6)

      • The chieftain’s allotment (7, 8)

      • Chieftains to act honestly (9-12)

      • People’s contributions and the chieftain (13-25)

    • 46

      • Offerings on certain occasions (1-15)

      • Inheritance of the chieftain’s property (16-18)

      • Places to boil offerings (19-24)

    • 47

      • The stream flowing from the temple (1-12)

        • Water gradually deepens (2-5)

        • Water of the Dead Sea healed (8-10)

        • Swampy places not healed (11)

        • Trees for food and healing (12)

      • Boundaries of the land (13-23)

    • 48

      • Division of the land (1-29)

      • The 12 gates of the city (30-35)

        • City named “Jehovah Is There” (35)