Ezekiel 1:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,

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  • 2 Kgs 24:12-15 : 12 Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him. 13 And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said. 14 And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away. 15 He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.
  • Ezek 8:1 : 1 Now in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in my house and the responsible men of Judah were seated before me, the hand of the Lord came on me there.
  • Ezek 20:1 : 1 Now it came about in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the responsible men of Israel came to get directions from the Lord and were seated before me.
  • Ezek 40:1 : 1 In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.
  • Ezek 29:17 : 17 Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  • Ezek 31:1 : 1 Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  • Ezek 29:1 : 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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