July 23 celebrates the Prophet Ezekieltranslated

The prophet Ezekiel belongs to the category of the four great prophets of the Old Testament and is a great religious personality of Israel. It is due to him that during the Babylonian captivity the exiled Jews did not fall into idolatry, but kept the Mosaic law and their monotheistic faith.

According to biblical researchers, the name Ezekiel (יְחֶזְקֵאל) can mean "strength (of) God", or "the strength of God", or rather it comes from the root יְחֵַזּק אֵל and means "may God strengthen (the child)". From the Septuagint's translation of the verse "and the word of the Lord came before Ezekiel, the Lord of hosts" (Ezek. 1, 3) it is not clear whether Ezekiel was a priest or his father. But most scholars agree that Ezekiel came from a Levite family, so he was a priest himself. He was married but his wife died shortly before the destruction of Jerusalem in 587-586 BC. from the Babylonians. We do not know if he had children. He was contemporary with the prophet Jeremiah, but much younger than him. Ezekiel began his prophetic mission when his…