ezekiel

     

Ezekiel, (Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל‎, Yehezkel, IPA: [jəx.ezˈqel]), "Go will strengthen", from חזק, hazak, [xa'zaq], literally "to fasten upon", figuratively "strong", and אל, el, [ʔel], literally "strength", figuratively "Almighty". (Arabic: ذو الكفل‎) According to religious texts, he was a prophet and priest in the Bible who prophesied for 22 years sometime in the 6th century BC in the form of visions while exiled in Babylon, as recorded in the Book of Ezekiel.

Trivia about ezekiel

  • His Old Testament book comes between Lamentations & Daniel
  • Exodus
  • (Alex walks through the Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem.) The Valley of the Communities is a labyrinth of great walls with the names of over 5,000 communities, most of which no longer exist; now the architects were inspired by this biblical prophet's vision of the Valley of the Dry Bones
  • This Biblical prophet tells of an odd sight resembling "a wheel in the middle of a wheel"