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)