Ezekiel 6 - Introduction

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1.

What factors made the sin of Judah so grievous?

2.

In what sense was Jerusalem in the midst of the nations (Ezekiel 5:5)?

3.

What horrible barbarisms would accompany the fall of Jerusalem?

4.

In what sense would a sword continue to pursue the refugees even on foreign soil?

5.

What would be necessary before the righteous anger of God could be satisfied?

6.

What are the evil arrow's of famine which God would send against Jerusalem?

7.

In what ways had the Jews defiled God's sanctuary in Jerusalem?

8.

Why was Ezekiel told to prophesy against the mountains of Israel?

9.

In what ways does Ezekiel in this section indicate the futility of idolatry?

10.

How many times does the expression you shall know that I am the Lord occur in the book? What does this expression reveal about the purpose of God?

11.

What hopeful picture of a remnant did Ezekiel paint?

12.

How does Ezekiel describe the anguish which God experiences over the apostasy of His people?

13.

Why the clapping of the hands and stamping of the feet in Ezekiel 6:11?

14.

Ezekiel says that those who sell land would never be able to reclaim it. How can this be reconciled with the prediction of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 32:15; Jeremiah 32:17; Jeremiah 32:43) that land would once again be bought and sold in Canaan?

15.

Why did Ezekiel make a chain in Ezekiel 7:23?

16.

How does Ezekiel describe the Chaldeans who would over throw Jerusalem?

17.

How would the coming calamity affect the spiritual leaders of the nation?