Ezekiel 1:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, ”

Ezekiel 1:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 wo...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1-3. Ezekiel Enters upon his Ministry. Ezekiel 1:1-28 . Ezekiel's Vision. Ezekiel 1:1-3 . Like the prophets generally, Ezekiel enters upon his ministry only after he has had a vision o...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

fifth year . B.C. 484. Compare 2 Kings 24:12 ; 2 Kings 24:15 , Jehoiachin. Called also Jeconiah, and Coniah. Compare 2 Kings 24:17-20 ; 2 Kings 25:1-21 .
Ezekiel 1:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, Jehoiachin's captivity - Called also Jeconiah and Coniah; see 2 Kings 24:12 . He was carried away by Nebuc...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 Jeho...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

§ 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 ( Ez...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD Ezekiel 1:1-28 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 mi...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Ezekiel 1:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 chapte...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 pe...
Ezekiel 1:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 tak...
Ezekiel 1:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 Ez...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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,...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel's First Vision by the River Chebar. B. C. 595. 1 Now it came to pass in the thir...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 an...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

I.—THE DIVINE CALL OF EZEKIEL. CHAPS 1–3, 15 1. THE DESIGNATION OF THE PROPHET TO HIS WORK (Chap. Ezekiel 1:1-3 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 1:1 . “ Now ,” the usual Hebrew connective particle, u...
Ezekiel 1:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 f...
Ezekiel 1:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 a...
Ezekiel 1:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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....
Ezekiel 1:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Four Living Creatures
Ezekiel 1:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 24:12-15 ; Ezekiel 20:1 ; Ezekiel 29:1 ; Ezekiel 29:17 ; Ezekiel 31:1 ; Ezekiel 40:1 ; Ezekiel 8:1
Ezekiel 1:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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, an...

Ezekiel 1:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 1:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 1:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 1:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezekiel 1:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 1:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 1:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 1:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 1:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 1:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 1:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 1:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 1:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 1:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 1:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 1:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 1:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 1:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 1:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes