Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
Ezekiel was a man of the priestly family who had first been shown wonderful visions of God's glory and majesty before being sent with messages of warning and reproof, so that having seen God he would not fear the face of man when meeting sinners among his own people. He prophesied among the captives of Israel in Babylonia by the river Chebar, serving as God's mouthpiece. His work ran between the years 595 and 574, beginning and closing just a little later than Jeremiah's.
The verse stands within the first twenty chapters of Ezekiel. Those chapters form part of searching moral instruction continuing through chapter 27. Much of that instruction predicts the last days.
The passage beginning here warns that people who come to seek God while keeping idols and stumblingblocks in their hearts endanger their souls. It calls them to examine their hearts and to recognize their duty to turn from those idols. The chapter names Daniel together with Noah and Job as an exemplar of wisdom and righteousness.
Ezekiel was a man of the priestly family who had first been shown wonderful visions of God's glory and majesty before being sent with messages of warning and reproof, so that having seen God he would not fear the face of man when meeting sinners among his own people. He prophesied among the captives of Israel in Babylonia by the river Chebar, serving as God's mouthpiece. His work ran between the years 595 and 574, beginning and closing just a little later than Jeremiah's.
The verse stands within the first twenty chapters of Ezekiel. Those chapters form part of searching moral instruction continuing through chapter 27. Much of that instruction predicts the last days.
The passage beginning here warns that people who come to seek God while keeping idols and stumblingblocks in their hearts endanger their souls. It calls them to examine their hearts and to recognize their duty to turn from those idols. The chapter names Daniel together with Noah and Job as an exemplar of wisdom and righteousness.