Ezekiel (KJV)
48 chapters · 1,273 verses. Choose a chapter to read it in the King James Version.
About the Book of Ezekiel
Ezekiel ministers to the exiles with vivid visions and symbolic acts, explaining the exile as just judgment and promising restoration. It looks toward a renewed people, a new heart, and the return of God's glory.
- Genre
- Prophecy (major)
- Author
- Traditionally attributed to the prophet Ezekiel
- First audience
- The Judean exiles in Babylon
How to read it: Read prophecy with attention to its symbolic visions and acts; interpret the imagery as imagery, and hold judgment and hope together.
It opens: “Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.” (Ezekiel 1:1)
Chapters
Key verses in Ezekiel
The verses of Ezekiel that the rest of Scripture cross-references most often.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.