In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
Parallel translations
- WEB In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
- BSB On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
- NKJV On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,
- NASB (On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,
- NLT This happened during the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity.
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Quick answer
The vision is precisely dated to the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile, roughly 593 BC. The exact dating grounds Ezekiel's message in real history.
Overview
Jehoiachin was the young king deported to Babylon in 597 BC, and the exiles reckoned time by his captivity. By dating his call so carefully, Ezekiel underscores that God acts within verifiable history, not myth. This precision lends authority and accountability to the prophecies that follow. It reminds readers that God's word comes to real people in real circumstances of judgment and hope.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Kgs 24:12–15And 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.
- Ezek 20:1And 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.
- Ezek 8:1And 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.
- Ezek 40:1In 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.
- Ezek 29:17And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
- Ezek 31:1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
- Ezek 29:1In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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