Some Key Chapters in the Book

Geographically, one would expect the list to end with the north, the direction from which the enemy of Israel at this time. Babylon, would invade. Jeremiah 25, 9 even calls Babylon the "the enemy from the north." For Ezekiel, however, Babylon is not the enemy but the instrument of the Lord's judgment, even exercising judgment against the seven nations (e.g.,Ez 26,7;19,18;30,10). Instead, the book places Egypt in the seventh and climactic arrangement. Moreover, there are seven oracles against Egypt (29-32).

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