EZEKIEL

Arabic Ḥizqīl . Not mentioned by name, but there is generally supposed to be an allusion to Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones ( Ezek. xxxvii. 1 ) in the Qurʾān, Sūrah ii. 244 :— “Dost thou not look at those who left their homes by you sands, for fear of death; and God said to them ‘Die,’ and He then quickened them again?” Al-Baiẓāwī says that a number of Israeli tes fled from their villages either to join in a religious war, or for fear of the plague, and were struck dead, but Ezekiel raised them to life again. The Kamālān say he is perhaps the same as Ẕū ʾl-Kifl. [ ZU ʾL-KIFL .]