Ezekiel 1:2
New International Version
On the fifth of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

New Living Translation
This happened during the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity.

English Standard Version
On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin),

Berean Standard Bible
On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

King James Bible
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

New King James Version
On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,

New American Standard Bible
(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,

NASB 1995
(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,

NASB 1977
(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,

Legacy Standard Bible
(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,

Amplified Bible
(On the fifth of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,

Christian Standard Bible
On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile —

Holman Christian Standard Bible
On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile—

American Standard Version
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In the fifth day in the month of the fifth year of the captivity of Yoiakin, King of Judea

Brenton Septuagint Translation
On the fifth day of the month; this was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joakim.

Douay-Rheims Bible
On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joachin,

English Revised Version
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
On the fifth day of the month, during the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiakin,

Good News Translation
It was the fifth year since King Jehoiachin had been taken into exile.)

International Standard Version
On the fifth day of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's imprisonment in exile,

JPS Tanakh 1917
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

Literal Standard Version
In the fifth of the month—it is the fifth year of the expulsion of King Jehoiachin—

Majority Standard Bible
On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

New American Bible
On the fifth day of the month—this was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile —

NET Bible
(On the fifth day of the month--it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile--

New Revised Standard Version
On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin),

New Heart English Bible
In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

Webster's Bible Translation
In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

World English Bible
In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,

Young's Literal Translation
In the fifth of the month -- it is the fifth year of the removal of the king Jehoiachin --

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Ezekiel's Vision by the River Kebar
1In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God. 2On the fifth day of the month— it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin— 3the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.…

Cross References
2 Kings 24:12
Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.

Ezekiel 8:1
In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.

Ezekiel 17:12
"Now say to this rebellious house: 'Do you not know what these things mean?' Tell them, 'Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 20:1
In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down before me.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Ezekiel 8:1
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.

Ezekiel 20:1
And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

Ezekiel 29:1,17
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, …

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Verse 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, 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, 2), but Ezekiel does not recognize that prince - who was, as it were, a mere satrap under Nebuchadnezzar - as a true king, and throughout his book systematically adheres to this era (Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 20:1; Ezekiel 24:1, et al.). About this time, but a year before, the false prophets of Judah were prophesying the overthrow of Babylon and the return of Jeconiah within two years (Jeremiah 28:3), and the expectations thus raised were probably shared by many of Ezekiel's companions in exile, while he himself adhered to the counsels of the leter which Jeremiah had sent (Jeremiah 29:1-23) to the Jews of the Captivity. To one who felt himself thus apart from his brethren, musing over many things, and perhaps perplexed with the conflict of prophetic voices, there was given, in the "visions of God" which he relates, the guidance that he needed. They did not break in, we may well believe, suddenly and without preparation on the normal order of his life. Like other prophets, he felt, even before his call, the burdens of his time. and vexed his soul with the ungodly deeds of these among whom he lived.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
On the fifth
בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה (ba·ḥă·miš·šāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 2568: Five

day of the month—
לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ (la·ḥō·ḏeš)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2320: The new moon, a month

it
הִ֚יא (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

was the fifth
הַחֲמִישִׁ֔ית (ha·ḥă·mî·šîṯ)
Article | Number - ordinal feminine singular
Strong's 2549: Fifth, a fifth

year
הַשָּׁנָ֣ה (haš·šā·nāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

of the exile
לְגָל֖וּת (lə·ḡā·lūṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1546: Captivity, exiles

of King
הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

Jehoiachin—
יוֹיָכִֽין׃ (yō·w·yā·ḵîn)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3112: Jehoiachin


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