Quick Intro to Ezekiel

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Ezekiel was a prophet during Israel’s final fall. His eponymous book contains many different forms of literature. He seems to have been a deeply and broadly knowledgable man, well-prepared to write at that historical moment. Like a great movement that started in Exodus ended with a return to alienation and…
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Quick Intro to Lamentations

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Lamentations is a book containing five poetic laments mourning the destruction and captivity of Jerusalem and God's goodness. Where once the city was like a great queen, it became desolate like a widow enslaved and weeping in the night. All of Israel's history with God, the law, and the prophets, have not…
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Quick Intro to Jeremiah

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Jeremiah was disregarded by his contemporaries more than any other prophet. He spoke beginning in king Josiah's time, through the Babylonian siege and carrying away, and even in Egypt with a band of Jews who fled there after Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed. He prophesies of destruction for Judah…
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