Ezekiel 3:2
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the 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
- Jeremiah 25:17 So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,
- Acts 26:19 So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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