Ezekiel 20-48

About this book

Exodus, old and new (20:1-44) -- The sword of Damocles (21:1-37 [20:45-21:32]) -- Jerusalem : the inside story (22:1-31) -- Chronic nymphomania (23:1-49) -- Two fateful days (24:1-27) -- Palestinian scores to be settled (25:1-17) -- Reassurances that Tyre would fall (26:1-12) -- Tyre in terms of the Titanic (27:1-36) -- Tyre's pretensions shattered and paradise lost (28:1-19) -- Sidon's fate and Judah's fortune (28:20-26) -- False faith in Egypt (29:1-16) -- The sealing of Egypt's fate (29:17-21) -- Egypt's Day of the Lord (30:1-19) -- Egypt's broken arms (30:20-26) -- The felling of the Egyptian cosmic tree (31:1-18) -- The slaying of the Egyptian dragon (32:1-16) -- Egypt's infernal doom (32:17-32) -- The goodness and severity of God (33:1-20) -- Perspectives on the fall of Jerusalem (33:21-33) -- The good shepherd (34:1-31) -- Whose land? (35:1-36:15) -- Two inner constraints (36:16-38) -- The promise of new life (37:1-14) -- One king, one people (37:15-28) -- Israel's security paradoxically affirmed (38:1-39:29) -- The sanctuary as focus of the new age (40:1-48:35) -- The new temple (40:1-42:20) -- The new temple in action (43:1-46:24) -- Temple and land (47:1-48:35).