# Ezekiel 3:8

> Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

— Ezekiel 3:8, 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

- Jeremiah 1:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/1/18
- Acts 7:51-56 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/7/51

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

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/3/8
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/3
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).