Ezekiel 2:9
Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 593 BC
WHEN
593 BC
dated by the text itself
Ezekiel prophesies from Babylon, not from Jerusalem.
WHO RULED
- Nebuchadnezzar II king of Babylon 605-562 BC
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
SEE ALSO
- Ezekiel 8:3 He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem,…
- Ezekiel 3:1 “Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
- Daniel 10:10 Suddenly, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.
- Revelation 5:1-5 Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals. …
- Revelation 10:8-11 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.” …
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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