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The book of Ezekiel is organized around three major visions. This prophetic book describes God’s action as king of wayward Israel. Through symbolic acts, the prophet Ezekiel is so closely identified with divine judgment that his life becomes a mirror of the judgment itself. His first vision gives him a glimpse of the cosmos under the rule of God and inaugurates him into his role as a prophet....

In vv. 1–11, the elders of Israel come to Ezekiel in order to inquire of Yahweh. While the subject of the inquiry is not stated, one may infer from the chapter that it concerns the welfare of Jerusalem (cf. vv. 21–23). Yahweh rejects the inquiry and employs rhetorical strategies from case law to explain why. In the second subunit, vv. 12–23, case law is employed again to foreclose any possibility of intercession for Jerusalem. Whereas vv. 1–11 reject
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