Introduction
2. The judgment coming on Judah chs. 6-7
The Lord commanded Ezekiel to announce prophetic messages to the Jews in captivity after his time of imposed silence ended (cf. Ezekiel 3:26-27). In these messages the prophet elaborated some of the symbols he introduced in chapter 5. The first message dealt with the cause of the judgment, namely, idolatry (ch. 6), and the second with the nature of the judgment (ch. 7).
The destruction of pagan shrines ch. 6
". . . the focus of chap. 6 is on the individual responsibility of the people and prepares the way for the subsequent spoken messages." [Note: Cooper, p. 106. Allen, pp. 92-96, provided an excursus on and a chart of the parallels between Leviticus 26 and Ezekiel 4-6.]
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