Ezekiel 1:2
On the fifth of the month, that was the fifth year of the captivity of King Jehoiachin,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 of the month, I being seated in my house, and the elders of Judah being seated before me, then fell upon me there the hand of My Lord Yahweh.
Ezekiel 29:1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
Ezekiel 31:1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, that the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:
Ezekiel 40:1In the twenty-fifth year of our exile at the beginning of the year. on the tenth of the month in the fourteenth year, after the city was smitten, on this selfsame day, came upon me the hand of Yahweh, 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 →