The Prophet is commanded to be very particular as to the precise day and time of this wonderful transaction. The ninth year of the captivity, in the tenth month called Tebeth; and even the day of the month. And this was no doubt with a view to testify the judgment of God, in the siege of Jerusalem. For that Ezekiel who was now in Babylon, should be able to tell the people there, as he did, what was at that very day going on in Babylon, could proceed from no other than the Lord himself.
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Ezekiel 24:1-2
1 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.