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The Book of
Among exiles in Babylon, visions of glory, judgment, and restoration show that God has not abandoned his people.
Author
Ezekiel son of Buzi
Exilic ministry in Babylon, c. 593-571 BC
Audience
Judean exiles in Babylon
Prophetic visions and oracles
World Stage
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Nebuchadnezzar II 605-562 BC
Movement
Glory, judgment, and restoration
Artifact
Visions in exile
Biblical Timeline
Exile & Return
Ezekiel context: 586 BC - 400 BC
Biblical Timeline
Exile & Return
Ezekiel context
Exile & Return / 586 BC - 400 BC
Ezekiel context is set in the exile and return, where Babylonian exile, return, rebuilding, and renewed covenant life under Persian rule.
Ezekiel prophesies to displaced Judeans who have lost land, king, and temple. Through visions, symbolic acts, and sharp oracles, the book shows God's glory leaving, judging, restoring, and finally dwelling among a renewed people.
The book begins with Ezekiel's call and visions of God's glory, then explains Jerusalem's coming judgment, turns to surrounding nations, and moves toward watchman warnings, new-heart promises, restored Israel, and a final temple vision.
Read Ezekiel as prophetic vision for a traumatized exile community. Expect symbolic actions and strange images, but keep asking what each scene reveals about God's holiness, presence, judgment, and promise to restore.
Ezekiel ministers among Judean exiles in Babylon from the years before Jerusalem's fall through the years after it. Deportation, temple loss, and imperial control form the crisis behind the book's warnings and hopes.
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