Ezekiel 1:2 meaning and explanation
On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
Ezekiel 1:2, Berean Standard Bible
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This verse anchors Ezekiel's vision in a precise date: the fifth day of the fourth month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile, which places the prophet among the Judean deportees in Babylon around 593 BC. Ezekiel, a priest, is far from the temple in Jerusalem, yet the word of the LORD comes to him there.
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