Ezekiel 1-20 : a new translation with introduction and commentary

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Introduction: -- The book of Ezekiel: its parts and arrangement -- The dates and the historical setting -- The method of this commentary: holistic interpretation -- Ezekiel's call: the vision (1.1-28b) -- Ezekiel's call: the commissioning (1:28b--3:15) -- The lookout (3:16-21) -- Confinement and symbolic acts (3:22--5:17) -- Doom upon the highland of Israel (6:1-14) -- The end of the civil order (7:1-27) -- The defiled temple and its abandonment (8:1--11:25) -- Symbolizing the exile (12:1-16) -- The coming terror (12:17-20) -- Discounting prophecy (12:21-28) -- Substitutes for true prophecy (13:1-23) -- God will not respond (14:1-11) -- An exception to the rule (14:12-23) -- The vinestock and Jerusalem (15:1-8) -- Jerusalem the wanton (16:1-63) -- The fable of the two eagles (17:1-24) -- Divine justice and repentance (18:1-31) -- A dirge over the kings of Israel (19:1-14) -- Threat of a second exodus (20:1-44) -- v. 22A. chapters 21-37 -- God's sword (21:1-37) -- Jerusalem all defiled and corrupt (22:1-31) -- The wanton sisters (23:1-49) -- The filthy pot (24:1-14) -- Disaster that constrains and releases (24:15-27) -- Against four bad neighbors (25:1-17) -- Tyre wiped out (26:1-21) -- The shipwreck of Tyre (27:1-36) -- The fall of Tyre's hubristic leader (28:1-10) -- The fall of Tyre's king: a mythical version (28:11-19) -- Sidon's doom; God's vindication (28:20-26) -- Egypt's fall and restoration (29:1-16) -- An amendment to the Tyre oracles (29:17-21) -- Egypt's doomsday (30:1-19) -- Egypt disarmed, Babylon armed (30:20-26) -- Assyria a lesson to Egypt (31:1-18) -- A dirge over Pharaoh (32:1-16) -- Pharaoh in the netherworld (32:17-32) -- Doom prophecy is a call to repent (33:1-20) -- Release from dumbness (33:21-22) -- Unregenerate communities (33: 23-33) -- Shepherds bad and good (34:1-31) -- Reclaiming and renewing the land (35:1--36:15) -- Restoration for the sake of God (36:16-38) -- The resurrectional metaphor of national restoration (37:1-14) -- Reuniting the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah (37:15-28).