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Ezekiel

exilic prophet

Priest and prophet among the exiles by the Chebar river.

2 appearances1 Bible books1 known aliases

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Priest deported with King who receives his call by the canal in Babylonia through a vision of wheels, , and the glory of Yahweh. He performs elaborate sign-acts, eats a scroll, lies on his side for hundreds of days, and refrains from mourning his wife to dramatize the coming destruction of . After the city falls his oracles turn toward restoration, culminating in the valley of dry bones, the reunion of and Israel, and a vast temple vision in which the glory returns and the river flows out to heal the land.

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