Ezekiel 3:15

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Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.

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The Chebar was a canal or river in Babylonia, near the settlement of Tel-abib, where Judean exiles lived after Jerusalem’s first deportation. Ezekiel’s sitting among them for seven days highlights his identification with their shock and prepares for his commission as God’s watchman to the exiles.

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Ezekiel 3:15 mentions Chebar and Tel-abib.

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