Pure boron was arguably first produced by the American chemist Ezekiel Weintraub in 1909.

The answers were recorded in the works of the prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Second Isaiah, and in the Deuteronomistic history, the collection of historical works from Joshua to Kings: God had not abandoned Israel ; Israel had abandoned God, and the Babylonian exile was God's punishment for Israel's lack of faith.

The phrase " spread your cloak " was a woman's way of asking for marriage ( Ezekiel 16: 8 ).

According to the information given in the book, Ezekiel ben-Buzi was born into a priestly family of Jerusalem c. 623 BCE, during the reign of the reforming king Josiah.

In 597, following a rebellion against Babylon, Ezekiel was among the large group of Judeans taken into captivity by the Babylonians.

The various dates given in the book suggest that Ezekiel was 25 when he went into exile, 30 when he received his prophetic " call ", and 52 at the time of the last vision c. 571.

Ezekiel appears briefly in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but his influence there was profound, most notably in the Temple Scroll with its temple plans, and the defence of the Zadokite priesthood in the Damascus Document.

In reference to Ezekiel being in his " thirtieth year ... during the fifth year of King Jehoiachin ’ s exile ", it could be determined that he was born c. 622 BCE.

Ezekiel, at the age of 25, was amongst 3, 000 upper class Jews who were exiled to Babylon.

There is no mention of him having any offspring, only that his wife died rather young, in the ninth year of exile, when Ezekiel was 34 years of age.

However, Ezekiel and his contemporaries like Jeremiah, another prophet who was living in Jerusalem at that time, witnessed the fulfillment of their prophecies when Jerusalem was finally sacked by the Babylonians in 587 BCE, an event that is confirmed by most historians.

Ezekiel was 50 years old when he began to have visions of a new Temple.

Some statements found in rabbinic literature ( Radak – R. David Kimkhi – in his commentary on Ezekiel 1: 3, based on Targum Yerushalmi ) posits that Ezekiel was the son of Jeremiah, who was ( also ) called " Buzi " because he was despised by the Jews.

Rava states in the Babylonian Talmud that although Ezekiel describes the appearance of the throne of God ( Merkabah ), this is not because he had seen more than the prophet Isaiah, but rather because the latter was more accustomed to such visions ; for the relation of the two prophets is that of a courtier to a peasant, the latter of whom would always describe a royal court more floridly than the former, to whom such things would be familiar.

According to the midrash Canticles Rabbah, it was Ezekiel whom the three pious men, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ( also called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Bible ) asked for advice as to whether they should resist Nebuchadnezzar's command and choose death by fire rather than worship his idol.

There are still others who maintain that after Nebuchadnezzar had carried the beautiful youths of Judah to Babylon, he had them executed and their bodies mutilated, because their beauty had entranced the Babylonian women, and that it was these youths whom Ezekiel called back to life.

In the book " Pythagoras: Greek philosopher " it states ; " Nazaratus, the Assyrian, one of Pythagoras ' masters, was supposed to be the prophet Ezekiel, and Thomas Stanley's Life of Pythagoras says that Ezekiel and Pythagoras flourished together.

Ezekiel, like Jeremiah, is said by Talmud and Midrash to have been a descendant of Joshua by his marriage with the proselyte Rahab.

Carsten Niebuhr, in his Reisebeschreibung nach Arabian, says he visited Al Kifl in Iraq, midway between Najaf and Hilla and said Kifl was the Arabic form of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel equates the Cherubim of chapter ten with the living creature of chapter one by saying: " This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar ", in Ezekiel 10: 15, and in Ezekiel 10: 20 he said: " This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar ; and I knew that they were the cherubim.

The passages from Ezekiel and Revelation in particular have attracted attention due to their prophetic descriptions of conflicts said to occur near the " End times ".

During a dinner address to state legislators Reagan said " Ezekiel tells us that Gog, the nation that will lead all of the other powers of darkness against Israel, will come out of the north.

In Ezekiel 16: 1, Jerusalem is said to be the daughter of a Hittite mother and an Amorite father, sister of Samaria and Sodom.

Ezekiel, like Jeremiah, is said to have been a descendant of Joshua by his marriage with the proselyte Rahab ( Talmud Meg.

In Ezekiel 27: 14 Togarmah is mentioned after Tubal, Javan, and Meshech as supplying horses and mules to the Tyrians, and in Ezekiel 38: 6 it is said to have supplied soldiers to the army of Gog.

It is said by St. Jerome and other Catholic Church Fathers that the Tau is an Old Testament allusion to the cross and crucifixion of Jesus mentioned in Ezekiel.

Yahweh commissions Ezekiel to be a prophet and a " watchman " in Israel: " Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites.

# Building a new city ( Ezekiel 33: 1 – 48: 35 ): The Jewish exile will come to an end, a new city and new Temple will be built, and the Israelites will be gathered and blessed as never before.

Despite this huge show of force, the battle will be short-lived, for Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation all say that this last desperate attempt to destroy the people and the city of God will end in disaster: " I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.

In July 592 BCE, at the age of 30, Ezekiel describes his calling to be a prophet, by going into great detail about his encounter with God who rode upon a chariot of four wheels guided by Cherubs.

That Ezekiel endeavors, differently than others of the Bible's authors who describe mystic visions, to report about as many details of the design of what he has perceived as possible nourishes doubts that his account can usefully be interpreted merely on a mystical basis and strengthens tendencies to explain certain passages of the book as descriptions of sightings of a spacecraft.

The tomb of Ezekiel is a structure located in modern day south Iraq near Kefil, believed to be the final resting place of Ezekiel.

* Israel and Judah will be made into one nation again ( Zechariah 11: 12-14, Ezekiel 37: 16-22 )

* The ruined cities of Israel will be restored ( Ezekiel 16: 55 )

* Weapons of war will be destroyed ( Ezekiel 39: 9 )

* The Temple will be rebuilt ( Ezekiel 40 ) resuming many of the suspended mitzvot

Instead, the Tahash animal ( Exodus 25, 26, 35, 36 and 39 ; Numbers 4 ; and Ezekiel 16: 10 ) was thought to be a kosher unicorn with a coat of many colors that only existed in biblical times.

Messianic Jews believe God's people have a responsibility to spread his name and fame to all nations ( Psalms 96: 3, Ezekiel 3: 18 – 19 ) It is believed that the Children of Israel were, remain, and will continue to be the chosen people of the God, and are central to his plans for existence.

Gabriel is interpreted by the Rabbis to be the " man in linen " in the Book of Daniel and the Book of Ezekiel.

In the Book of Ezekiel, Gabriel is understood to be the angel that was sent to destroy Jerusalem for its wickedness and idolatry during the late Kingdom of Judah, separating the few righteous Jews that would not be destroyed and would be exiled from the majority of wicked ones that would perish there for their iniquities and failure to return.

Their context can be either genealogical ( as Magog in Genesis 10: 2 ) or eschatological and apocalyptic, as in Ezekiel and Revelation.

Scholars disagree, however, as to whether Ezekiel 38-39 was part of the original text ( compare, for example, Joseph Blenkinsopp, who believes it to be a late addition, and Daniel Block, who argues for its original status ).