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Ezra (BOOK OF Kingsley and Sir R)

BOOK OF Kingsley, and Sir R. Murchison promoted the Eyre defense fund. The prosecutions could not, however, be sustained; and eventually in 1872 the government refunded to Eyre the costs of his defense.

He died Dec. 1, 1901.

EYRE, LAKE, a salt lake of South Australia, lying due N. of Spencer Gulf, at a depression of 38 feet, and with an area of 3,706 square miles. Except in the season of rains, this lake is generally a mere salt marsh. It was discovered in 1840 by Eyre.

EZEKIEL, one of the greater prophets, to whom is attributed one of the larger prophetic books of the Old Testament, the visions and utterances which it contains being expressly attributed, in the work itself, to Ezekiel. He was the son of Buzi, a priest (i: 3). He was carried captive, in the time of Jehoiachin, 595 B. C., about 11 years before the destruction of Jerusalem under Zedekiah (xl: 1). There is no direct quotation from Ezekiel in the New Testament, but there are a few allusions to his utterances, especially in the Book of Revelations.

The genuineness and authenticity of the prophecies of Ezekiel have not been seriously impugned either in the Jewish or Christian Church.