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Ezekiel 24:1
In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD speaks to Ezekiel in the ninth year of the exile, on the tenth day of the tenth month. This exact date corresponds to the beginning of the Babylonian king’s siege of Jerusalem.
The words — דְבַר־יְהוָה (de.var-Yahweh) translates literally as "the word of Yahweh," denoting authoritative divine communication. The temporal phrases בַּשָּׁנָה הַתְּשִׁיעִית (ba.sha.nah ha.te.shi'it) and בַּחֹדֶשׁ הָעֲשִׂירִי (ba.chodesh ha.a.si'ri) function as precise historical markers rather than symbolic numbers.
The thread — This chronological formula appears in Ezekiel 8:1 and Ezekiel 20:1 to anchor prophetic visions to specific regnal years. The event parallels the surrender recorded in 2 Kings 24:12.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to treat prophecy as historically situated rather than abstract. The text demands accountability to the factual timeline of divine judgment and human political collapse.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Cross-references
- 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 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.
- 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 1:2 On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—
- Ezekiel 26:1 In the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 29:1 In the tenth year, on the twelfth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 31:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 32:1 In the twelfth year, on the first day of the twelfth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 32:17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,