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- Ezekiel:
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- "A Hebrew prophet of the Exile. A play is made on this name in connection with the prophet's call (Ezek 3:7-8, 14). Of a priestly family (1:3), Ezekiel grew up in Judea during the last years of Hebrew independence and was deported to Babylon with Jehoiachin in 597 B.C., probably early in life. He was thus a contemporary of Jeremiah and Daniel. Ezekiel was married (24:18) and lived with the Jewish exiles by the irrigation canal Kebar (1:1, 3; 3:15) which connected the Tigris River with the Euphrates above Babylon; Daniel carried out his quite different work in the Babylonian court." (THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, © 1987 Zondervan, pp. 335-36)