And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
Ezekiel received this word while ministering among the captives in Babylonia by the river Chebar, while Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem. It stands within chapters 10 through 12, which open a portion continuing to chapter 27 that gives searching moral instruction and includes predictions of the last days. That portion comes after the repeated vision in chapter 10 showing God's care over His work and over His people.
The verse belongs to Ezekiel's acted miniature drama warning of Jerusalem's coming siege, exile, captivity and judgment. In it he carried his possessions as if fleeing in haste, dug through a wall, and removed them under cover of darkness to portray the coming removal. The chapter presents that moving out and captivity as a vivid, enacted warning. The enacted sign was meant to make the people consider what God was about to do.
The word of the Lord introduced by the verse announced the removal of the king in the days of Zedekiah in B.C. 590, when God permitted the Babylonians to deprive the kingdom of Israel of its king. The throne taken away was the throne on which Solomon had sat as the throne of the Lord, passed from king to king by God's choice. It was removed because it had become so corrupt as basely to misrepresent its King and had failed to present to the world a nation of holy people.
Ezekiel received this word while ministering among the captives in Babylonia by the river Chebar, while Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem. It stands within chapters 10 through 12, which open a portion continuing to chapter 27 that gives searching moral instruction and includes predictions of the last days. That portion comes after the repeated vision in chapter 10 showing God's care over His work and over His people.
The verse belongs to Ezekiel's acted miniature drama warning of Jerusalem's coming siege, exile, captivity and judgment. In it he carried his possessions as if fleeing in haste, dug through a wall, and removed them under cover of darkness to portray the coming removal. The chapter presents that moving out and captivity as a vivid, enacted warning. The enacted sign was meant to make the people consider what God was about to do.
The word of the Lord introduced by the verse announced the removal of the king in the days of Zedekiah in B.C. 590, when God permitted the Babylonians to deprive the kingdom of Israel of its king. The throne taken away was the throne on which Solomon had sat as the throne of the Lord, passed from king to king by God's choice. It was removed because it had become so corrupt as basely to misrepresent its King and had failed to present to the world a nation of holy people.