Yehezkiel 1:2

1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

Yehezkiel 8:1

A Desecrated Temple

8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, ¹  as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand ²  of the sovereign Lord seized me. ³ 

Yehezkiel 24:1

The Boiling Pot

24:1 The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month ⁴ :

Yehezkiel 26:1

A Prophecy Against Tyre

26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, ⁵  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 29:1

A Prophecy Against Egypt

29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, ⁶  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 29:17

29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, ⁷  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 30:20

30:20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, ⁸  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 31:1

A Cedar in Lebanon

31:1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, ⁹  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 32:1

Lamentation over Pharaoh and Egypt

32:1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, ¹⁰  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ¹¹  was struck down, on this very day, ¹²  the hand ¹³  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ¹⁴ 

[8:1]  ¹ tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”

[8:1]  sn In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month would be September 17, 592 b.c., about fourteen months after the initial vision.

[8:1]  ² tn Or “power.”

[8:1]  sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[8:1]  ³ tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.

[24:1]  ⁴ tn The date of this oracle was January 15, 588 b.c.

[26:1]  ⁵ tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.

[26:1]  sn April 23, 587 b.c.

[29:1]  ⁶ tn January 7, 587 b.c.

[29:17]  ⁷ sn April 26, 571 b.c.

[30:20]  ⁸ tn April 29, 587 b.c.

[31:1]  ⁹ sn June 21, 587 b.c.

[32:1]  ¹⁰ sn This would be March 3, 585 b.c.

[40:1]  ¹¹ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ¹² tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ¹³ tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[40:1]  ¹⁴ sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).