Ezekiel / Chapter 15

Ezekiel 15

Using the image of vine wood, the chapter contrasts what seems promising with what proves unusable: it cannot be fashioned for strength, and once scorched it serves only for burning. The metaphor drives the announced outcome.

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Ezekiel 15

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Map and timeline

Movement

Glory, judgment, and restoration

Artifact

Visions in exile

Biblical Timeline

Exile & Return

Creation

Exile

New creation

Ezekiel context: 586 BC - 400 BC

Biblical Timeline

Exile & Return

Ezekiel context

Exile & Return / 586 BC - 400 BC

CreationNew creation

Creation4000 BCPatriarchs2000 BCExodus1500 BCKingdom1000 BC2nd Temple400 BCChurchAD 100

Ezekiel context is set in the exile and return, where Babylonian exile, return, rebuilding, and renewed covenant life under Persian rule.

Chapter structure

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KeyIntroductionArgumentIllustrationExplanationWarningConclusion

The message begins

Introduction

15:1

A question about vine wood

Argument

15:2-3

Fire shows its uselessness

Illustration

15:4-5

The comparison applied to Jerusalem

Explanation

15:6

A verdict with recognition

Warning

15:7

Desolation grounded in trespass

Conclusion

15:8

Passages in this chapter

The message begins15:1 A question about vine wood15:2-3 Fire shows its uselessness15:4-5 The comparison applied to Jerusalem15:6 A verdict with recognition15:7 Desolation grounded in trespass15:8

Context snapshot

Date

Exilic ministry in Babylon, c. 593-571 BC

Genre

Prophetic visions and oracles

Setting

Babylon

Audience

Exiled Judeans in Babylon

World Stage

c. 593-571 BC

Neo-Babylonian Empire

Nebuchadnezzar II 605-562 BC

Ezekiel prophesies among Judean exiles in Babylon while Jerusalem moves toward collapse and later hope. Visions, symbolic acts, judgment oracles, and restoration promises answer the crisis of exile and temple loss.

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