# Ezekiel 3:6

> not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

— Ezekiel 3:6, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 593 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Ezekiel 1:1-2 dates itself by the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin, which the Babylonian Chronicle puts in 597 BC.

## Who ruled

- **Nebuchadnezzar II**, king of Babylon, 605-562 BC · Source: 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

- Jonah 3:5-10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jonah/3/5
- Matthew 11:20-24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/11/20
- Matthew 12:41-42 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/12/41
- Luke 11:30-32 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/11/30
- Romans 9:30-33 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/9/30

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/3/6
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/3
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).