Ezekiel 3:22
And 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.”
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
- Acts 9:6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
- Ezekiel 1:3 the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
- Ezekiel 8:4 And there I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain.
- Ezekiel 37:1 The 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.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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