EZEKIEL CHAPTER SIX. PROPHET - DATE JONAH(825-785BC)? JOEL(800BC)? HOSEA(785-725BC)?...

EZEKIEL CHAPTER SIX

PROPHET - DATE

JONAH (825-785BC)?

JOEL (800BC)?

HOSEA (785-725BC)?

MICAH (785-710BC)?

AMOS (784BC)?

ISAIAH (701-681BC)?

NAHUM (700BC)?

ZEPHANIAH (630BC)?

JEREMIAH (629-588BC)?

DANIEL (606-534BC)?

HABAKKUK (598BC)?

EZEKIEL (597-573BC)?

OBADIAH (588-562BC)?

EZRA (536-456BC)?

HAGGAI (532-512BC)?

ZECHARIAH (520-475BC)?

ESTHER (485-465BC)?

NEHEMIAH (465-424BC)?

MALACHI (420-397BC)?

KING / EVENT - DATE

TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)?

HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)?

SHALMANESER (727-722BC)?

ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)?

SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)?

NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)?

ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)?

JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)?

BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)?

CYRUS (559-529BC)?

BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)?

DARIUS (511-475BC)?

OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER SIX

JUDGMENT AGAINST ISRAEL V. 1-7

A REMNANT WILL BE SAVED V. 8-14

READ: EZEKIEL 6:1-3

JUDGMENT ON IDOLATROUS ISRAEL

1 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

2 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

3 and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: "Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:1-3


1 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

2 "Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

3 and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: "Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

WHAT DID THE LORD WANT EZEKIEL TO DO?

DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL ABOUT THIS?

WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?




READ: LEVITICUS 26:27-30

27 'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:1-3JUDGMENT ON IDOLATROUS ISRAEL

DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL ABOUT THIS?READ: DEUTERONOMY 12:1-4

1 "These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. 2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. 4 You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things. NKJV



WHAT DID THE PROPHET SAY TO JEROBOAM?READ: 1 KINGS 13:1-3

1 And behold, a man of God went from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. 2 Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar! Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall be burned on you.'" 3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign which the LORD has spoken: Surely the altar shall split apart, and the ashes on it shall be poured out."


DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL ABOUT THIS?WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?

READ: 2 KINGS 23:10-1210 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech. 11 Then he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-Melech, the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 The altars that were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:33 and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: "Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?READ: 2 KINGS 23:13-14

13 Then the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the people of Ammon. 14 And he broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images, and filled their places with the bones of men. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 6:4-5


4 Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

5 And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.



4 Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

5 And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.


WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 34:3-7


WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?READ: 2 CHRONICLES 34:3-7

3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images. 4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.



WHAT DID JOSIAH DO?

READ: 2 CHRONICLES 34:3-7

5 He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with axes.

7 When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. NKJV



WHAT WERE THE ISRAELITES DOING? WHY?

READ: ISAIAH 40:18-20

18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

19 The workman molds an image, The goldsmith overspreads it with gold, And the silversmith casts silver chains.

20 Whoever is too impoverished for such a contribution Chooses a tree that will not rot; He seeks for himself a skillful workman To prepare a carved image that will not totter. NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 6:6-8


6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

7 The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

8 "Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.


6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. 7 The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD. 8 "Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.

WHAT WILL THE LORD DO? WHY?WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEIR IDOLS?

WHO WILL ESCAPE?WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?


READ: JEREMIAH 44:27-29

27 Behold, I will watch over them for adversity and not for good. And all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end to them.

28 Yet a small number who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs.

29 And this shall be a sign to you,' says the LORD, 'that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for adversity.'

READ: EZEKIEL 6:9-10JUDGMENT ON IDOLATROUS ISRAEL

9 Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

10 And they shall know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them."


9 Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them."

WHO WILL ESCAPE?WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?WHY DID THE LORD DO THIS?

WHAT WILL THEY KNOW?

DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:9READ: DEUTERONOMY 30:1-8

1 "Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God drives you, 2 and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice, according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 that the LORD your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you. 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:9READ: DEUTERONOMY 30:1-8

5 Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers. 6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. 7 "Also the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you. 8 And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and do all His commandments which I command you today.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:9



WHO WILL ESCAPE?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM?

READ: ZECHARIAH 10:9

9 "I will sow them among the peoples, And they shall remember Me in far countries; They shall live, together with their children, And they shall return. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:9WHO WILL ESCAPE?


READ: ZECHARIAH 13:8-98 And it shall come to pass in all the land,“ Says the LORD, "That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one-third shall be left in it: 9 I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested.They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, 'This is My people'; And each one will say, 'The LORD is my God.'" NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:9WHO WILL ESCAPE?


READ: ZECHARIAH 14:1-21 Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst. 2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled,And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:9JUDGMENT ON IDOLATROUS ISRAEL


WHY DID THE LORD DO THIS?

READ: PSALMS 78:40-4140 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness,And grieved Him in the desert! 41 Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:9WHY DID THE LORD DO THIS?

READ: ISAIAH 7:1313 Then he said, "Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 43:2424 You have bought Me no sweet cane with money,Nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices;But you have burdened Me with your sins, You have wearied Me with your iniquities. NKJV

READ: ISAIAH 63:1010 But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; So He turned Himself against them as an enemy, And He fought against them. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:9JUDGMENT ON IDOLATROUS ISRAEL


WHY DID THE LORD DO THIS?

READ: PSALMS 78:40-4140 How often they provoked Him in the wilderness,And grieved Him in the desert! 41 Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:1010 And they shall know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them."

WHY WILL THE LORD DO THIS?READ: LEVITICUS 26:39-42

39 And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; also in their fathers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away. 40 'But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, 41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt — 42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:1010 And they shall know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them."

WHY WILL THE LORD DO THIS?READ: LEVITICUS 26:43-45

43 The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. 45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:I am the LORD.'" NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 6:11-12


11 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Pound your fists and stamp your feet, and say, 'Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

12 He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.



11 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Pound your fists and stamp your feet, and say, 'Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

12 He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury upon them.

WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:11WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL?

READ: JEREMIAH 42:19-2219 "The LORD has said concerning you, O remnant of Judah,'Do not go to Egypt!' Know certainly that I have admonished you this day. 20 For you were hypocrites in your hearts when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray for us to the LORD our God, and according to all that the LORD your God says, so declare to us and we will do it.' 21 And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, or anything which He has sent you by me.22 Now therefore, know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to dwell." NKJV

READ: EZEKIEL 6:13-14


13 Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

14 So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'"'" NKJV


13 Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols. 14 So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'"'" NKJV

WHAT WILL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL KNOW?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?WHAT HAPPENED AT DIBLAH – RIBLAH?

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:1313 Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.


DID THE LORD WARN THEM ABOUT THIS?READ: LEVITICUS 26:30

30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:1313 Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.


WHAT DID JUDAH DO TO PROVOKE THE LORD?READ: 1 KINGS 14:22-23

22 Now Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done. 23 For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and wooden images on every high hill and under every green tree. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:13WHAT WILL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL KNOW?

WHAT DID JUDAH DO TO PROVOKE THE LORD?

READ: ISAIAH 1:2929 For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees Which you have desired; And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens Which you have chosen. NKJV

READ: JEREMIAH 2:2020 "For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,‘ When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:13WHAT WILL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL KNOW?

WHAT DID JUDAH DO TO PROVOKE THE LORD?

READ: HOSEA 4:13-1413 They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops, And burn incense on the hills, Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, Because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters commit harlotry, And your brides commit adultery. 14 'I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry, Nor your brides when they commit adultery; For the men themselves go apart with harlots, And offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot. Therefore people who do not understand will be trampled. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:1414 So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'"'" NKJV

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?WHY?

READ: JEREMIAH 6:12-1312 And their houses shall be turned over to others,Fields and wives together; For I will stretch out My hand Against the inhabitants of the land," says the LORD. 13 "Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is given to covetousness;And from the prophet even to the priest, Everyone deals falsely. NKJV

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:1414 So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.'"'" NKJV

WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ISRAEL & JUDAH?

WHAT HAPPENED AT DIBLAH – RIBLAH?



QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:14WHAT HAPPENED AT DIBLAH - RIBLAH?

READ: JEREMIAH 52:8-118 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him. 9 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him. 10 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in bronze fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

(2 KINGS 25:6-7)

QUESTIONS: EZEKIEL 6:14WHAT HAPPENED AT DIBLAH - RIBLAH?

READ: JEREMIAH 52:24-2724 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers. 25 He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king's close associates who were found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. 26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.27 Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land. NKJV

(2 KINGS 25:18-21)

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