Ezekiel 3:26
I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.
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 24:27 On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Psalms 51:15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
- Psalms 137:6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
- Amos 8:11-12 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the…
- Micah 3:6-7 Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them. …
- Luke 1:20-22 And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.” …
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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