Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Ezekiel 1:2
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, with whom the second company of exiles had been brought to Babylon,
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, with whom the second company of exiles had been brought to Babylon,
Verse Ezekiel 1:2. _JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY_] Called also Jeconiah and Coniah; see 2 Kings 24:12. He was carried away by Nebuchadnezzar; see 2 Kings 24:14....
The Jewish date. This verse and Ezekiel 1:3, which seem rather to interrupt the course of the narrative, may have been added by the prophet when he revised and put together the whole book. The word “c...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. PREDICTIONS BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM A. judgment Predictions Concerning Jerusalem (1-24) Chapter S 1:1-3:14 The Vision of Glory and the Call of the Prophet _ 1. The...
EZEKIEL 1-3. EZEKIEL ENTERS UPON HIS MINISTRY. Ezekiel 1:1. Ezekiel's Vision. Ezekiel 1:1. Like the prophets generally, Ezekiel enters upon his ministry only after he has had a vision of God and a ca...
FIFTH YEAR. B.C. 484. Compare 2 Kings 24:12; 2 Kings 24:15, JEHOIACHIN. Called also Jeconiah, and Coniah. Compare 2 Kings 24:17;...
_fifth year … jehoiachin_ Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim and grandson of Josiah, reigned only three months and ten days. He is also styled Jeconiah or Coniah, Jeremiah 22:24 _seq_., Ezekiel 24:1, Eze 27...
CHAPTER TWO EZEKIEL'S INAUGURAL VISION 1:1-28 Before a prophet could speak to others, God had to speak to him. A special call vision catapulted the apprentice priest Ezekiel into the prophetic minist...
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, THE FIFTH YEAR OF KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY. In the third or fourth year of Jehoiakim, father of Jehoiachi...
1:2 Jehoiachin's (e-14) Or 'Joiachin's;' elsewhere called also 'Jeconias,' and 'Coniah.'...
§ 1. EZEKIEL'S CALL AND CONSECRATION AS A PROPHET (EZEKIEL 1-3) Date, June-July, 592 b.c. Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by means of a vision of God's glory (Ezekiel...
KING JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY] the first captivity, 597 b.c.: see Intro. THE fifth year] 592 b.c....
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THIS BOOK 1. HISTORY After the death of King Solomon, the *I...
בַּ חֲמִשָּׁ֖ה לַ † חֹ֑דֶשׁ הִ֚יא הַ...
THE VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD Ezekiel 1:1 IT might be hazardous to attempt, from the general considerations advanced in the last two Chapter s, to form a conception of Ezekiel's state of mind during...
A VISION OF GOD'S MAJESTY Ezekiel 1:1-21 A dark storm-cloud approaches the prophet, from which an incessant blaze of lightning scintillated. As it drew near, the forms of four living creatures became...
The Book opens with the account of the prophet's preparation, and falls into two sections, the first describing the visions he saw, and the second the voice he heard. Verses Eze 1:2-3 in this chapter...
_Captivity. Literally, "transmigration," (Haydock) which is more agreeable to the Hebrew, &c. Jechonias delivered himself up. Six years after this, Sedecias was taken. (St. Jerome)_...
Let the Reader call to mind, through the whole of this prophecy, the state in which the Prophet as well as the Church was, at the time of those visions with which he was favoured. God's people are pec...
In chapter 1 we find a date which refers to the year of Josiah's passover, but with what intent I do not know. It has been thought that the thirty years relate to the jubilee. On this point I cannot s...
IN THE FIFTH [DAY] OF THE MONTH,.... The month Tammuz, as before: (WHICH [WAS] THE FIFTH YEAR OF JEHOIACHIN'S CAPTIVITY); the same with Jeconiah and Coniah, as he is sometimes called; he was taken by...
In the fifth [day] of the month, which [was] the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, Ver. 2. _In the fifth day._] The Sabbath day, likely, that queen of days, as the Jews call it. See on Ezeki...
_In the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity_ This was of course the fifth year of Zedekiah, who succeeded Jehoiachin. And as the city and temple were destroyed in the eleventh year of Zedekiah,...
1-14 It is a mercy to have the word of God brought to us, and a duty to attend to it diligently, when we are in affliction. The voice of God came in the fulness of light and power, by the Holy Spirit...
IN THE FIFTH DAY; the Hebrew hath only _fifth_, according to its concise style; we do well to supply _day_, as in EZEKIEL 1:1. OF THE MONTH Tamuz, as EZEKIEL 1:1, answering to our June and July. WHICH...
Ezekiel 1:2 fifth H2568 month H2320 fifth H2549 year H8141 King H4428 Jehoiachins H3112 captivity H1546...
‘In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the R...
CONTENTS: Vision of the glory. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Christ, Ezekiel, Jehoiachin, (Ezekiel 1:26). CONCLUSION: While no man has seen God at any time, many have had visions of Him, displays of...
Ezekiel 1:1. _In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, and fifth day of the month._ The Jews were accustomed to reckon time from great and auspicious events, as the call of Abraham, the exodus from...
_The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God._ GOD’S CARE OF HIS CHURCH 1. God is not tied to places. He can in a dungeon, in a prison, in a Babylon, let down His Spirit into the heart of any...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 1:1 Inaugural Vision. The story of Ezekiel’s call as a prophet is the most complex of all the “prophetic call stories” in the OT. It is also one of the most carefully structure...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 1:2 Probably the “thirtieth year” of v. Ezekiel 1:1 should be linked with the FIFTH YEAR OF THE EXILE OF KING JEHOIACHIN (593 B.C.). Jehoiach
I.—THE DIVINE CALL OF EZEKIEL. CHAPS 1–3, 15 1. THE DESIGNATION OF THE PROPHET TO HIS WORK (Chap. Ezekiel 1:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 1:1. “NOW,” the usual Hebrew connective particle, united to a...
EXPOSITION For the life of the prophet prior to the vision which this chapter relates, and which constituted his call to that office, see Introduction. EZEKIEL 1:1 NOW; literally, _and. _The use of...
Shall we turn at this time to the prophecy of Ezekiel. Ezekiel said, It came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month (Ezekiel 1:1), So that would be July th...
2 Kings 24:12; Ezekiel 20:1; Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 3
The month — Thamus, as Ezekiel 1:1, answering to our June and July. Fifth year — This account observed will guide us in computing the times referred to Ezekiel 1:1. These five of Jehoiachin, and the e...