It was 597 B.C. when Ezekiel and thousands of other citizens of Judah were taken over by the Babylonians and forced into exile. Ezekiel had been living as a captive in Babylon for five years with his ...

The readings for the 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (July 8) focus on prophets. The text from Ezekiel tells us that, whether people listen or not has nothing to do with the truth of the prophet’s ...

The book of Ezekiel is buried deep in the midst of the prophetic books of the Old Testament, and for many believers, it stays buried there, unexcavated and mysterious. Few pastors want to touch the ...

The fourth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel finds God instructing the prophet to perform a series of bizarre tasks. In the freezer aisle of the grocery store, you may find packages of bread bearing a ...

The problems which abound in a study of the book of Ezekiel are apparent to scholar and layman alike. For the latter, questions arise mainly in the interpretation of the book, owing to its highly ...

For more than 2,500 years, a mysterious passage buried in the Hebrew Bible has fascinated believers, theologians, historians, and political observers alike. The prophecy, found in Ezekiel chapters 38 ...

The first time the word "prophet" is used in the Bible is when God tells Abimelech in a dream to return Sarah to Abraham in Genesis 20:7. God says, "Now, therefore, restore the man his wife; for he is ...

National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. A prophet during ...