Ezekiel 1:2 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 1:2

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

YLT

In the fifth of the month--it is the fifth year of the removal of the king Jehoiachin--

DBT

On the fifth of the month, (it was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,)

About this book

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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16 verses on the floor

2 Kings 24:12–15
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
Ezekiel 8:1
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.
Ezekiel 40:1
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.
Ezekiel 20:1
And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me.
Ezekiel 17:12
Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

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We nowhere read that succeeding writers adopted this date as a standard. Besides, there is no doubt that the usual method among the Jews was to begin to reckon from a Jubilee. For this was a point of starting for the future.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

) that it was the fifth year of Jehoiachin's captivity. But the Chaldee paraphrase fixes upon another era, and says that this was the thirtieth year after Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law in the house of the sanctuary, at midnight, after the setting of the moon, in the days of Josiah the king.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H154615× in canon H2320284× in canon H2568343× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 1:2EZE 20:1 EZE 8:1
EZE 1:2EZE 8:1 EZE 1:2-3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 1:2EZE 20:1 EZE 24:1
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 1:2EZE 8:1 EZE 20:1
EZE 1:2EZE 40:1 EZE 33:21
EZE 1:2EZE 8:1 EZE 33:31
EZE 1:2EZE 8:1 EZE 14:1
EZE 1:2EZE 20:1 EZE 29:17

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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