Ezekiel 1:8

Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four living creatures had faces and wings,

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHEN

593 BC

dated by the text itself

Ezekiel prophesies from Babylon, not from Jerusalem.

WHO RULED

SOURCES

date — Ezekiel 1:1-2 dates itself by the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin, which the Babylonian Chronicle puts in 597 BC.
Nebuchadnezzar II — Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), which date the Battle of Carchemish and the first campaign against Judah; Berossus, cited by Josephus in Against Apion I

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