“The vision
That I saw was
Like the vision
That I had seen
When he came
To destroy the city.
It was
Like the vision
That I had seen
By the river Chebar.
I fell upon my face.”
Ezekiel explicitly referred to his earlier visions of the glory of God. In chapter 8, he saw the abominations in the Temple. Later, he saw the fall of Jerusalem in chapter 24. He mentioned his vision of God’s glory at the River Chebar in Babylon that he described at the beginning of this book, in chapters 1-3. Once again, in the first person singular, Ezekiel noted that he fell on his face in reverence to the glory of God that stunned him, just as it had before.
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