In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
Parallel translations
- WEB In the twenty-fifth 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 struck, in the same day, Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me there.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was captured, on the very same day the hand of the Lord was upon me; and He took me there.
- NASB In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on this very day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.
- NLT On April 28, during the twenty-fifth year of our captivity—fourteen years after the fall of Jerusalem—the Lord took hold of me.
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Quick answer
In the twenty-fifth year of exile, God's hand brings Ezekiel in vision to Israel. A new, hopeful section of the book begins.
Overview
This carefully dated verse (likely 573 B.C., fourteen years after Jerusalem's fall) opens the great temple vision of chapters 40 to 48. After oracles of judgment and the defeat of Gog, the Lord now grants a vision of restoration centered on His dwelling among His people. The precise dating roots the vision in real history, and the promise of God's renewed presence ultimately finds fulfillment in Christ, the true temple, and in the new Jerusalem.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ezek 33:21In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”
- Ezek 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.
- Ezek 32:17In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezek 32:1In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezek 1:2–3On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
- Ezek 37:1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
- Ezek 3:22And there the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you.”
- Ezek 11:24And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,
- 2 Kgs 25:1–30So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
- Ezek 8:1In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.
- Exod 12:41At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezek 29:17In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Jer 52:1–34Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
- Rev 1:10On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
- Jer 39:1–18In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army and laid siege to the city.
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