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With acknowledgements to Chris Wright The Message of Ezekiel, IVP, 2001.
Questions on Chapter 17
This chapter is an allegory designed to illustrate specific historical events. 17:3-10 is
the allegory, 17:11-21 is its explanation and 17:22-24 is a smaller allegory.
1. What events are referred to in this chapter?
a. Who is the first great eagle?
b. Who is the topmost shoot?
c. Who is the seed of your land?
d. Who planted it?
e. Who is the second great eagle?
The allegory becomes a prediction as it comes before the final rebellion by Zedekiah
and the fall of Jerusalem and would have strengthened Ezekiel’s credentials when the
event finally occurred. What point does this final section (22-24) make?
Questions on Chapter 19
This chapter is a funeral dirge or lament.
2. What clues are found in this lament? What do they probably indicate?
4. Ezekiel 18:1-4. What do these verses mean? See Jeremiah 31:27- 30.
No to fatalism
5. What kind of fatalism was/is current among
a. The Israelites in Jerusalem?
No to blame-shifting
8. What are the implications for us today in the statement that every person belongs to
God and is responsible to him?