Ezekiel 1:1

And it cometh to pass, in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth of the month, and I [am] in the midst of the Removed by the river Chebar, the heavens have been opened, and I see visions of God.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

In Context

2In the fifth of the month — it is the fifth year of the removal of the king Jehoiachin —

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Cross References

Genesis 46:2and God speaketh to Israel in visions of the night, and saith, 'Jacob, Jacob;' and he saith, 'Here [am] I.'

Numbers 4:3from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting.

Psalms 137:1By rivers of Babylon — There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

Isaiah 1:1The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Jeremiah 29:15'Because ye have said, Jehovah hath raised up to us prophets in Babylon,

Ezekiel 3:15And I come in unto the Removed, at Tel-Ahib, who are dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are dwelling I also dwell seven days, causing astonishment in their midst.

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