[[Ezek-07]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Ezek-06]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Ezek-08]] --- ### An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land. Now the end is on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The prediction of the final and complete destruction of the sovereign state of Israel/Judah and its land. *Historical context*: The fulfillment occurred in 586 BC when the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem, destroyed the city walls, and ended the Davidic monarchy, effectively ending the independence of the land for centuries. *Related to*: ### The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A specific prophecy detailing that the population would perish through three distinct means: external military slaughter, and internal disease and starvation. *Historical context*: During the 18-month Babylonian siege (588–586 BC), historical and biblical accounts in Lamentations and the Babylonian Chronicle confirm that the city suffered extreme famine and disease while the Babylonian army waited outside to kill those who attempted to flee. *Related to*: ### They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won't be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath. They won't satisfy their souls or fill their bellies *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The prediction that monetary wealth would become entirely useless because it could not be exchanged for food during the coming calamity. *Historical context*: In the final stages of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, food supplies were so exhausted that money lost its value; wealth could not purchase non-existent bread, and the gold and silver were abandoned as the city fell. *Related to*: ### I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A prediction of the desecration of the Temple in Jerusalem (the 'secret place' or Holy of Holies) by foreign invaders. *Historical context*: This was fulfilled in 586 BC when the Babylonian army entered the First Temple (Solomon's Temple), stripped it of its gold and sacred vessels, and burned the entire structure to the ground, an act of ultimate profanation in Jewish history. *Related to*: ### Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A prediction that a specifically cruel and 'wicked' foreign nation would take possession of the homes and religious sites of the Israelites. *Historical context*: Historians and theologians identify the 'worst of the nations' as the Babylonians (Chaldeans), who were known for their extreme military brutality and the systematic displacement of the Judean population into exile. *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy