Ezekiel 1:2
On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
In Context
Cross References
Ezekiel 8:1In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.
Ezekiel 29:1In the tenth year, on the twelfth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 31:1In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 40:1In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
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 →