Ezekiel 1:2

On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joachin,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

In Context

1Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in the midst of the captives by the river Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw the visions of God.

3The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel the priest the son of Bud in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 8:1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the ancients of Juda sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.

Ezekiel 29:1In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 31:1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the third month, the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 40:1In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, the tenth day of the month, the fourteenth year after the city was destroyed: in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me thither.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 1:2-4

Ezekiel When we entered upon the writings of the prophets, which speak of the things that should be hereafter, we seemed to have the same call that St. John had ( Rev. iv. 1 ), Come up hither; but, when we enter upon the prophecy of this book, it is as if the voice said, Come up higher; as we go forward in time (for Ezekiel prophesied in the captivity, as Jeremiah prophesied just before it), so we soar upward in discoveries yet more sublime of the divine glory. These waters of the sanctuary still grow deeper; so… Read the whole commentary →

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