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197 Ezekiel was then away from Jerusalem, having been taken into exile with other Judean leaders by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. The place of exile, where Ezekiel’s prophe- cies and famed vision of the Celestial Chariot took place, was on the banks of the Khabur River, in the region of Harran. The location was not a chance one, for the concluding saga of the Day of the Lord—and of Assyria and Baby- lon—was to be played out where Abraham’s journey be- gan. The Day of the Lord