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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-3

The Divine summons to the prophetic mission. "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year," etc. Our text authorizes the following observations. The Divine summons to the prophetic mission - I. WAS ADDRESSED TO EZEKIEL AT A TIME WHICH HE VERY MINUTELY RECORDS . "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity." This statement made with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-28

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:2

The fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity. The date of this deportation stands as B.C. 599 ( 2 Kings 24:8-16 ; 2 Chronicles 36:9 , 2 Chronicles 36:10 ), and thus brings us to B.C. 595 4 as the time of Ezekiel's first vision. It was for him and for his fellow exiles a natural starting point to reckon from. It would have been, in one sense, as natural to reckon from the beginning of Zedekiah's reign, as Jeremiah does ( Jeremiah 39:1 , Jeremiah 39:2 ), but Ezekiel does not... read more

Albert Barnes

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

The thirtieth year - being closely connected with as I, is rather in favor of considering this a personal date. It is not improbable that Ezekiel was called to his office at the age prescribed in the Law for Levites Numbers 4:23, Numbers 4:30, at which age both John the Baptist and our Lord began their ministry. His call is probably to be connected with the letter sent by Jeremiah to the captives Jeremiah 29:0 written a few months previously. Some reckon this date from the accession of... read more

Albert Barnes

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

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 word “captivity” (as in Ezekiel 1:1) refers to the “transportation” of the king and others from their native to foreign soil. This policy of settling a conquered people in lands distant from their home, begun by the Assyrians, was continued by the Persians and by Alexander the Great. The Jews were... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 1:1

Ezekiel 1:1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year It is very uncertain from whence this computation of time commences. But the most probable opinion seems to be that which the Chaldee paraphrast, Archbishop Usher, Dr. Prideaux, and other learned men adopt: namely, that these thirty years are to be reckoned from the time when Josiah and all the people of Judah entered into that solemn covenant mentioned 2 Kings 22:3; and when the book of the law was found by Hilkiah the priest, which... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 1:2-3

Ezekiel 1:2-3. 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, (2 Kings 25:2,) it follows that this vision appeared to Ezekiel six years before that event. The Hebrew writers, it must be observed, use several computations of the beginning of the Babylonish captivity: see the note on Jeremiah 25:11. That under Jehoiachin, wherein Ezekiel was... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-28

1:1-3:27 THE CALL OF EZEKIELA vision of God’s glory (1:1-28)Ezekiel lived in a Jewish settlement that bordered the Chebar River. He had been in Babylon five years and was now thirty years of age, the age at which he normally would have begun his priestly service in the temple in Jerusalem (cf. Numbers 4:2-3). But he had no chance now of returning to Jerusalem. Instead God called him to be a prophet, who would take his message to his people in Babylon (1:1-3).The call came as Ezekiel was... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 1:1

Ezekiel. In Hebrew. Y heze el yehazzek- el = El is strong, or El strengthens (compare Israel, Genesis 32:28 ). Of the four greater prophets , Ezekiel and Daniel (who prophesied in Babylonia) are compounded with "El" ( App-4 . IV); while Isaiah and Jeremiah (who prophesied in the land) are compounded with "Jah". Ezekiel was a priest (Ezekiel 1:3 ), carried away eleven years before the destruction of the city and temple (Ezekiel 1:2 ; Ezekiel 33:21 . 2 Kings 24:14 ). He dwelt in his own house... read more