Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Parallel translations
- WEB Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
- BSB In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- NKJV Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- NASB Now the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying,
- NLT On January 15, during the ninth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:
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Quick answer
God's word comes to Ezekiel on a precisely dated day, the start of Jerusalem's final siege. The exact dating marks this as a verifiable, decisive moment in history.
Overview
The careful dating, the ninth year, tenth month, tenth day, anchors the prophecy in real history and corresponds to the day Babylon began besieging Jerusalem (cf. 2 Kings 25:1). Ezekiel, far away in exile, receives this word the very day the siege starts, demonstrating that the coming judgment is no guess but divine revelation. Such precise fulfillment authenticates the prophet's message.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- 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 32:1And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
- 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 1:2In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
- 2 Kgs 24:12And 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 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 26:1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, 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,
- Ezek 33:21And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
- 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 32:17It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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