Ezekiel prophesied to the exiles by the river Chebar in Babylon, and his visions are among the most vivid in Scripture: wheels within wheels, the glory of God departing and returning to the temple, and the valley of dry bones that lived again when he prophesied — can these bones live? His name means God will strengthen, fitting for a message of hope to a broken people.
God promised through him the very heart of the gospel: a new heart also will I give you... I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh. Ezekiel's strange, powerful visions all point to a God who restores.
Ezekiel has climbed the charts steadily — bold, distinctive, and warmly shortened to Zeke.
Variants & nicknames
Zeke, Ezequiel, Yehezkel
Ezekiel in the Bible
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.