Ezekiel 4:1-27

EZEKIEL—NOTE ON Ezekiel 4:1 Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah. The oracles of chs. Ezekiel 4:1 come before Jerusalem’s downfall in 587 B.C. Although the sequence appears to be chronological, there is also some grouping by theme and type of literature: chs. Ezekiel 4:1 include several symbolic actions; chs. Ezekiel 8:1 comprise the second major vision sequence in the book, Ezekiel’s first “temple vision”; chs. Ezekiel 15:1 are dominated by “parables” and extended metaphors. Almost the only hopeful statement comes in Ezekiel 11:14, which anticipates the latter half of the book. Yet even that passage includes the familiar warnings against sin.