Ezekiel 12:1-28

§ 4. Further Prophecies of Israel's Guilt and approaching Punishment (Ezekiel 12-19)

This is a somewhat miscellaneous group of prophecies intermediate in date between the preceding (August-September, 591 b.c.) and succeeding (July-August, 590 b.c.) sections. It includes fresh symbols of exile, flight, and famine (Eze 12:1-20), a doctrine of prophecy, true and false (Eze 12:21 to Eze 14:11), an explanation of God's exceptional treatment of Jerusalem in sparing a remnant (Eze 14:12-23), Ezekiel's parable of the Vine (Ezekiel 15:0), the parable of the Foundling Child (Ezekiel 16:0), a parable of Zedekiah's perfidy and its punishment (Ezekiel 17:0), a vindication of God's equity (Ezekiel 18:0), and a lament over the royal house of Judah (Ezekiel 19:0).