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Ezekiel’s call to the prophetic ministry came to him in exile in Babylonia during the period leading up to the final capture of Jerusalem and destruction of the temple. The first half of the book which bears his name pronounces God’s judgment on his people in the face of the widespread belief that, despite their persistent unfaithfulness and idolatry, God would never ultimately permit their city...

According to some scholars, chapters 40–48 attained their final form through the labours of disciples of Ezekiel who, like their mentor, anticipated the return of the Jews to their homeland, as related in Ezra and Nehemiah.4 R. E. Clements observes that these chapters constitute ‘an immediate and well-directed summons to build a temple in Jerusalem on the site where the ruins of the old building lay, torn
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