Ezekiel 1:2
On the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of the exile of king Jehoyachin,
Leeser Tanakh
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 8:1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, that I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there fell upon me there the inspiration of the Lord Eternal.
Ezekiel 29:1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, came the word of the Lord unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 31:1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 40:1In the five and twentieth year of our exile, in the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city had been smitten, on the selfsame day came the inspiration of the Lord upon me, and 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 →