Ezekiel 1:2

On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity,

Surrounding context

1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

1:2 On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity,

1:3 the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon him there.

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