VISION
OF GOD
Lesson 1

SIN &
PUNISHMENT
Lesson 2  (2:1-3:15)
Lesson 3  (3:15 - 3:27)
Lesson 4  (4 - 6)
Lesson 5  (7)
Lesson 6  (8)
Lesson 7  (9-10)
Lesson 8  (11)
Lesson 9  (12)
Lesson 10  (13)
 Lesson 11  (14)
Lesson 12  (15)
Lesson 13  (16)
Lesson 14  (17)
Lesson 15  (18)
Lesson 16  (19-20)
Lesson 17  (21)
Lesson 18  (22-23)
Lesson 19  (23)
Lesson 20  (24)

JUDGMENT
OF NATIONS
 Lesson 21  (25)
Lesson 22  (26-28)
Lesson 23  (29-32)

FALL OF JERUSALEM
Title  1
Title  2

MESSIANIC
HOPE
Title  1
Title  2
Title  3
Title  4

THE NATIONS
AGAINST
GOD'S PEOPLE
Title  1
Title  2
Title  3
Title  4
Title  5
Title  6

MESSIANIC
TEMPLE
Title  1
Title  2
Title  3
Title  4
Title  5
Title  6

Ezekiel

Lesson 20
SIN & PUNISHMENT
Read: Ezekiel 24		     Chronology
  1. The words of chapter 24 came to Ezekiel how long after the initial vision which Ezekiel saw on the banks of the river Chebar?
     
  2. If King Jehoiachin was carried away as a captive in B.C. 597, in what year (approximately) did Ezekiel receive the message contained in chapter 24?

     

  3. If the final destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians took place in 586 B.C.,. approximately how many years prior to this does Ezekiel receive news of the beginning of the siege (cf. 2 Kings 25:1-3, 8; Jer. 52:4-6, 12)

     
  4. In Ezek. 11:3, what did those who gave wicked counsel mean by their statement, "this city is a cooking pot and we are the meat"? (KJV- "this city is the caldron. and we be the flesh.")

     
  5. How did God change the significance of the caldron and the flesh in 11:7?

     
  6. Identify the "pot" and the "pieces" as used in 24: 3-5.

     
  7. What remained in the pot after the pieces were cooked? (24:6)

     
  8. What city was called a "bloody city" and why? {cf. 22:2, 3, 6. 9, 12, 13. 27; 16:20-21; Jer. 2:30, 34)


    1. What does blood represent? (Lev. 17:14)
       
    2.  In recognition of this, what was to be done with the blood of slain animals? (Lev. 17:13. Dt. 12: 15-16)
       
    3. Blood that was not "covered" required what penalty? (Is. 26:21. Num. 35:33, cf. Dt. 21: 1-9, Gen. 4: 10)
       
    4. According to Ps. 106:37-38, what had caused the land to become polluted?
       
    5. In Ezek. 24:7, what is the point of the statement, "For her blood is in her midst; She placed it on the bare rock; She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust," and what would be the consequence?


     
  9. After describing the guilt of the city, Ezekiel returns to the parable of the pot. How would the rust (KJV - "scum") be consumed?
  1. What does the rust, or scum. represent? (24:6-7)

     
  2. What, or who, was the desire of Ezekiel's eyes?

     
  3. Ezekiel would bind on his turban (KJV -"tire of thine head") as opposed to doing what? (cf. Is. 61:3) NOTE: in the Hebrew text, the same word is used in Ezek. 24:17 and Is. 61:3 though this is not apparent in some English versions:
      Ezek. 24:17   Is. 61:3
    KJV tire of thine head = beauty
    NAS turban = garland
    ASV headtire = garland



  4. Ezekiel would wear shoes, as opposed to doing what? (2 Sam. 15:30)

     
  5. 14. Ezekiel would not cover his mustache (KJV- "lips"), as opposed to doing what? (Micah 3:7)

     
  6. What was the answer to the question (24:19) asked by the people?

     
  7. Would the lack of mourning on the part of the people be due to callousness, impenitence, despair, the beginning of true penitence, or something else? (compare 24:3 with Lev. 26: 39-40)

     
  8. What would be the occasion of the arrival. of a messenger to Ezekiel? (24:25-26; for the fulfilment, see Ez. 33:21-22)

     
  9. Give the reference for the beginning of Ezekiel's silence, which would end on the day that the messenger arrived.

     
  10. Was this a complete silence? (Ezek. 3:27, 11:25)

     
  11. How long did this silence last? (How many years?)
    12.