I. Ezekiel’s Commission (1:1–3:27)
A. The Divine Vision of God’s Glory (1:1–28)
1. The Setting of the Vision (1:1–3)
2. The Description of the Vision (1:4–28)
b. The wheels and their movement (1:15–21)
B. The Lord’s Charge to Ezekiel (2:1–3:27)
1. The Recipients of Ezekiel’s Ministry (2:1–5)
2. Ezekiel’s Encouragement in the Ministry (2:6–7)
3. The Nature of Ezekiel’s Ministry (2:8–3:11)
4. The Conclusion of the Vision (3:12–15)
5. Ezekiel: A Watchman to Israel (3:16–21)
6. Ezekiel’s Muteness (3:22–27)
II. Judah’s Iniquity and the Resulting Judgment (4:1–24:27)
A. The Initial Warnings of the Watchman (4:1–7:27)
1. Monodramas of the Siege of Jerusalem (4:1–5:17)
a. The brick and the plate (4:1–17)
b. The division of hair (5:1–4)
c. The significance of the symbolic acts (5:5–17)
2. The Coming Judgment on the Land of Judah (6:1–7:27)
a. Destruction of pagan religious shrines (6:1–14)
b. The imminence and comprehensiveness of the curse (7:1–27)
B. The Vision of the Exodus of God’s Glory (8:1–11:25)
1. Introduction to the Vision (8:1)
2. The Idolatry of the House of Israel (8:2–18)
a. The image of jealousy (8:2–6)
b. Idol worship of the elders (8:7–13)
c. Tammuz worship of the women (8:14–15)
3. Judgment on Jerusalem and the Departure of God’s Glory (9:1–11:23)
a. The man with the writing kit (9:1–4)
b. The executioner’s judgment (9:5–8)
c. Vindication of God’s judgment (9:9–11)
d. Coals of fire on Jerusalem (10:1–8)
e. Cherubim and Ichabod (10:9–22)
f. Judgment on Jerusalem’s leaders (11:1–13)
g. The future of the remnant (11:14–21)
h. The departure of the Lord’s glory from Jerusalem (11:22–25)
C. The Lord’s Reply to the Exiles’ Invalid Rationalizations of Hope (12:1–19:14)
1. The Dramatic Tragedy of Exile (12:1–20)
b. A picture of deportation (12:3–16)
2. The Faithfulness of God: The Present Judgment (12:21–28)
3. The Condemnation of Contemporary False Prophets (13:1–23)
a. Judgment on the prophets (13:1–16)
b. Judgment on the prophetesses (13:17–23)
4. The Effect of the False Prophets on the Leaders (14:1–11)
5. No Deliverance apart from Personal Righteousness (14:12–23)
6. Jerusalem, an Unprofitable Vine (15:1–8)
7. Jerusalem’s History as a Prostitute (16:1–63)
a. The birth of Jerusalem (16:1–5)
b. The Lord’s courtship and marriage to Jerusalem (16:6–14)
c. Jerusalem’s prostitution with other lands and gods (16:15–34)
d. Jerusalem: judged a prostitute (16:35–43)
e. The perversion of Jerusalem (16:44–58)
f. Restoration: the promise of love (16:59–63)
8. The Riddle and the Parable of the Two Eagles (17:1–24)
9. Individual Responsibility for Righteousness (18:1–31)
a. Proverb versus principle (18:1–4)
b. Three illustrations of the principle (18:5–18)
c. The explanation of the principle (18:19–32)
10. A Lament for the Princes of Israel (19:1–14)
D. The Defective Leadership of Israel (20:1–23:49)
1. The History of Israel’s Rebellion and the Lord’s Grace (20:1–44)
a. Introduction and preamble (20:1–4)
b. Rebellion in Egypt (20:5–9)
c. Rebellion in the wilderness (20:10–26)
d. Rebellion in the conquest and settlement of the land (20:27–29)
e. Rebellion of Judah in Ezekiel’s day (20:30–44)
2. Judgment on Judah’s Contemporary Leaders (20:45–21:32 [21:1–37])
a. The burning of the southern forest (20:45–21:7 [21:1–12])
b. The slaughter of the sword (21:8–17 [13–22])
c. The imminent judgment by Babylon (21:18–27 [23–32])
d. Ammon’s taunt; the sword’s demise (21:28–32 [33–37])
3. The Cause of Judgment: Judah’s Idolatrous Rulers (22:1–31)
a. Deliberate disobedience to the Mosaic covenant (22:1–16)
b. The purification of judgment (22:17–22)
c. The void of righteous leaders (22:23–31)
4. An Allegorical Summary of Israel’s Political Prostitution (23:1–49)
a. Israel’s sordid youth (23:1–4)
b. Samaria’s prostitution (23:5–10)
c. Jerusalem’s prostitution (23:11–35)
d. Judgment for prostitution (23:36–49)
E. The Execution of Jerusalem’s Judgment (24:1–27)
1. The Parable of the Cooking Pot (24:1–14)
2. Signs to the Exiles (24:15–27)
a. The death of Ezekiel’s wife (24:15–24)
b. The removal of Ezekiel’s muteness (24:25–27)
III. Judgment on the Foreign Nations (25:1–33:20)
A. Judgment on Judah’s Closest Neighbors (25:1–17)
3. Judgment on Edom (25:12–14)
4. Judgment on Philistia (25:15–17)
B. Judgment on Tyre (26:1–28:19)
1. Judgment by Babylon (26:1–21)
a. A judgment oracle against Tyre (26:1–14)
b. The response of vassal nations to Tyre’s fall (26:15–18)
c. The Lord’s concluding verdict (26:19–21)
2. Ezekiel’s Funeral Dirge over Tyre (27:1–36)
a. The building of Tyre’s ship of pride (27:1–11)
b. Tyre’s vast commercial relations (27:12–24)
c. The sinking of the ship of Tyre (27:25–36)
3. A Judgment Speech against the Ruler of Tyre (28:1–10)
4. A Funeral Dirge for the King of Tyre (28:11–19)
C. Judgment on Sidon (28:20–24)
D. Israel’s Restoration from the Nations (28:25–26)
E. Judgment on Egypt (29:1–32:32)
1. The Introductory Prophecy of Judgment on Egypt (29:1–16)
2. A Day of the Lord: the Consummation of Egypt’s Judgment (29:17–30:19)
a. Egypt: Nebuchadnezzar’s compensation for his siege of Tyre (29:17–21)
b. Nebuchadnezzar’s invasion of Egypt (30:1–19)
3. Pharaoh’s Broken Arms (30:20–26)
4. Egypt’s Fall Compared with Assyria’s Fall (31:1–18)
5. A Funeral Dirge for Egypt (32:1–16)
6. Ezekiel’s Summary Lament over Egypt (32:17–32)
7. Ezekiel’s Warning to the Exiles (33:1–20)
IV. The Future Blessings of a Faithful Covenant God (33:21–48:35)
A. Restoration to the Promised Land (33:21–39:29)
1. Israel and the Promised Land (33:21–33)
2. Shepherds False and True (34:1–31)
a. The accusation against the false shepherds (34:1–6)
b. God’s verdict concerning the leadership of Israel (34:7–31)
3. Preparation of the Land (35:1–36:15)
a. Removal of oppressors (35:1–15)
b. A prophecy of encouragement (36:1–15)
4. The Restoration to the Land (36:16–37:14)
a. The basis for Israel’s dispersion (36:16–21)
b. A description of the final restoration (36:22–32)
c. The effects of the restoration (36:33–38)
d. A vision of restoration (37:1–14)
5. Israel’s Reunion amid Fulfilled Covenants (37:15–28)
6. The Promised Land and Foreign Possession (38:1–39:29)
a. The initial judgment speech against Gog (38:1–23)
i. The identity of the major participants (38:1–3)
ii. The invasion of Gog into Israel (38:4–16)
iii. God’s judgment on Gog (38:17–23)
b. Reiteration and expansion of God’s judgment speech against Gog (39:1–29)
i. Invasion and judgment (39:1–8)
ii. The aftermath of judgment on Gog (39:9–20)
c. The summary of the six night messages (39:21–29)
B. God’s Glory Returns (40:1–48:35)
1. The Setting of the Apocalyptic Vision (40:1–4)
2. The Apocalyptic Vision (40:5–48:35)
a. The millennial temple (40:5–42:20)
ii. The inner court (40:28–47)
iii. The house of God (40:48–41:26)
iv. The priests’ buildings (42:1–14)
v. The measurement of the temple area (42:15–20)
b. The return of the glory of God to the temple (43:1–12)
c. Temple ordinances (43:13–46:24)
i. The altar of sacrifice: description and dedication (43:13–27)
ii. Regulations for the eastern gate (44:1–3)
iii. The priests and the service of the temple (44:4–16)
iv. Ordinances for the Zadokite priesthood (44:17–31)
v. The sacred area of the Holy Land (45:1–8)
vi. The role of the prince in the millennium (45:9–46:18)
vii. The priests’ kitchens (46:19–24)