The sixth year.. the sixth month] August-September, 591 b.c. Mine house] to which Ezekiel's prophetic activity was confined (Ezekiel 3:24). The elders of Judah] the leading men of the exiled community at Tel-abib. The hand of the Lord GOD fell] as in Ezekiel 1:3. The vision, with all its meaning, was the result of divine inspiration.
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Ezekiel 8:1
1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.