Tel Abib
Summary
Tel Abib was a settlement in Babylonia on the river Chebar where Ezekiel lived among the Jewish exiles and received prophetic visions.
☩Location and Name
Tel Abib (meaning 'corn-hill' or 'mound of grain') was probably a city of Chaldea or Babylonia proper, not Upper Mesopotamia as often supposed. The whole scene of Ezekiel's preaching and visions appears to have been Chaldea, and the river Chebar was likely a branch of the Euphrates, possibly the nahr Malcha, Nebuchadnezzar's royal canal.
☩Ezekiel's Ministry
Ezekiel came to the Jewish captives at Tel Abib and remained there 'astonished' seven days. It was at Tel Abib that the word of the Lord came to the prophet, commissioning him as a watchman to Israel. The element 'Tel' in the name refers to 'hill' or 'mound,' commonly applied to the heaps marking ruined cities throughout the Mesopotamian plain.
Related Verses1 mention
Ezekiel· 1 verse
References
- 1.John McClintock and James Strong, "Tel-abib," in Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, vol. X (Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887).
- 2.George Morrish, "Telabib," in Morrish's Concise Bible Dictionary (George Morrish, 1898).
- 3.F. N. Peloubet & M. A. Peloubet (ed.), "Telabib," in Smith's Bible Dictionary (Porter & Coates, 1884).
- 4.Andrew Robert Fausset, "Tel-Abib," in The Englishman's Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopædia (Hodder & Stoughton, 1878).