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God gives Ezekiel visions

It was the 30th year.[a] God spoke to me on the fifth day of the fourth month.[b] I was among the prisoners from Judah at the side of the Kebar river.[c] At that time the skies opened and I saw visions from God.

King Jehoiachin of Judah had been a prisoner in Babylon for five years. On the fifth day of the month,

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Footnotes

  1. 1:1 This probably means that Ezekiel was 30 years old.
  2. 1:1 The 4th month would be what we call June or July.
  3. 1:1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had taken Israelite people from Jerusalem as prisoners. The Kebar river joined the Euphrates river at Babylon. It was big enough for large boats.