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/ˈɛzɪˌkiɫ/
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- a Hebrew prophet of the 6th century BC who was exiled to Babylon in 587 BC
- an Old Testament book containing Ezekiel's prophecies of the downfall of Jerusalem and Judah and their subsequent restoration
How To Use Ezekiel In A Sentence
- Passages from Exodus, Ruth, Ezekiel, 2 Samuel, and 1 Chronicles are balanced by those from the Synoptics.
- A type of Him who was the great sin-bearer, not in mimic show as Ezekiel, but in reality Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Ezekiel was directed to speak to them with God's own words, the sum and purport whereof was to warn and dehort them from their wicked ways.
- No more than in Herod, who “heard the word gladly;” or in the Jews, when the preaching of Ezekiel was “pleasant” or desirable to them; or in those described Isa.lviii. 2, who “sought God daily, and delighted to know his ways,” in the midst of their abominable practices. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
- Ezekiel waved his arms, as if the gesture aided in memory retention.
- The charge of inspiring prophets with false messages is founded, pretendingly, upon 1st Kings 22: 22, 23, Jeremiah 4: 10, and Ezekiel 14: The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880
- ‘I wasn't aware you read, Ezekiel, ‘said Sutton, reassuming his seat facing the desk.’
- In contrast, Ezekiel announces a new rule in which the shepherd will genuinely care for the sheep.
- Or we read in the 37th chapter of the _Book of Ezekiel_ of that weird valley that was full of bones -- "_and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together bone to bone_," surely one of the most wonderful visions of the imagination in all literature. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
- In Ezekiel 13: 17-20, for example, God condemns certain false prophetesses, or sorceresses.
